Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...accused of Communist front activities, announced he had been subpoenaed and said he "would cooperate to the fullest extent possible with the committee." The Post front-paged this under MATHER FACES RED PROBE. Mather must have satisfied the committee, for it did not call him into open session. This meant that at least tacitly, the Jenner committee had cleared a man widely accused of being a Communist. The Post did not consider this newsworthy enough to print...
...Britons the news that the "Ashes" had come home meant that for the first time in 20 years England...
...Republican organization from New York to California. After the bad news on election day, some G.O.P. members of Congress, e.g., North Dakota's Senator Milton R. Young, shouted that Secretary Benson must go because "he has lost the confidence of the farmers." Others cried that the Wisconsin results meant that Congress would not and could not abandon rigid support of farm prices at 90% of parity. Democrats, and some Republicans, said that the Eisenhower Administration had already lost the farm vote...
...been learning these last two years-dynamic psychiatry. The next week seven young people came in for personal talks, and they've been coming ever since . . ." To the Rev. Walter L. Jewett of Centenary Methodist Church in Beatrice, Neb. (pop. 11,813), the group has "meant a reorientation of my entire life. Why, I used to be mad all the time-and I never realized it ... I'd been preaching for 25 years, and I had no adequate idea of how to tackle...
...order was a double victory for Fairchild and its president, Richard S. Boutelle, 55. It meant that the company's 9,000-man Hagerstown plant could keep running with almost no layoffs, when production of its own twin-tailed C-119 Packets tapers off next year. And it was also the final payoff in Fairchild's long and bitter wrangle with Kaiser, whose subsidiary. Chase Aircraft, had designed the C-123. The trouble started soon after Korea, when the Air Force farmed out an order for 159 of Fairchild's Cng cargo planes to Kaiser...