Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...talk meant what it seemed to mean, the West was embarked on a real effort to test Russia at the negotiating tables...
...many French Premiers before, Laniel's solution was to play for more time. "My government will ask parliament to put EDC on its agenda," he announced last week. But first, Foreign Minister Bidault and Chancellor Adenauer "must examine in common the problems concerning France and Germany . . ." Specifically, that meant the knotty Saar question. How long would that take? Laniel did not know-but it was pertinent that both he and Bidault are candidates to succeed President Vincent Auriol, whose term ends this year. Neither man is anxious to stake his candidacy on EDC, and the betting is that both...
Seen in that way, carvings such as those shown opposite and on the following page are not distortions of heads and bodies but expressions of ideas. They are meant not so much to please the eye as to imitate, placate and cajole the gods and ghosts of Africa's numberless tribes. Many of the sculptors underwent long apprenticeships, were often members of an elite in their tribes. Today, too many of them have turned to spiritless apings of their own traditions for the sake of a burgeoning export trade...
...Blessed by the Pope." P. & G. learned long ago not to take any assumption for granted. Once an advertising layout was proposed, using the traditional prescription symbol Rx; researchers found that 40% of the women they interviewed had no idea what it meant. Another time P. & G. planned to use the word "concentrated" in an ad, discovered that many housewives thought it meant "blessed by the Pope." President McElroy and everyone else at P. & G. constantly bear in mind the fact that woman is fickle-and her memory short. She must be constantly reminded of the product she loves...
What Mal Holmes meant not only to his own bandsmen, but to the players and to everyone who sat on the Harvard side of the field can never really be stated. It is something that made undergraduates sing even though Army had just scored its seventh straight touchdown, something that kept people rooted in their seats when the weather was bad and the score was worse. Something played in front of Dillon Field House that made Princeton students envious even though their team had just crushed Harvard, and something that made marching up the street to the game behind...