Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the family squabble, Pleasants is certain that "Catholicism and science were meant for each other. In the church we find the feminine element of life in its perfection . . . Yet the church as a human institution suffers the temptations of its state, les défauts de ses qualités: the temptation to timidity, the temptation to rank custom above life and obedience above prudence. Modern science is a masculine element, inquisitive, daring, critical, willing to try the new, yet careless of holding fast to what is good in the old, lacking often in reverence for human nature...
...proposed reciprocity?" The puzzled Gilmore downed a one-gulp toast to "reciprocity" and, like Molotov, turned the glass upside down over his head to show that it was empty. With a drop or two of vodka still trickling down his nose, Molotov walked on, leaving Gilmore wondering what he meant. Next day the Russians suddenly stopped censorship of newsmen's copy. Three weeks later, just as inexplicably, they imposed it again...
...single word from the censored text, the telephone line always went abruptly dead. To warn deskmen in A.P.'s London bureau, Gilmore sometimes wrote at the end of a dispatch, "Please give this a careful reading; I had to write it in a hurry," which they knew meant "The censor's been hacking at this one; watch it closely...
...cylinder head. But Rootes, who has built up his own vast network of 450 U.S. dealers since war's end, was shipping his cars on consignment. His dealers could wait until a car was sold before paying Rootes, could also return any cars that found no buyers. That meant Billy Rootes was carrying an unsold inventory in the U.S. worth about $4,500,000 (at retail prices). In sum, he was making one of the biggest gambles of his bold, spectacular career...
...farmers, aristocrats of the postwar boom, higher production has not meant higher earnings, as it has for industry. But neither has the farm recession spelled disaster. The Agriculture Department reports farm income from the first half of 1953 down only 6% from a year ago. Unless the drop is accelerated later in the year, U.S. farm income in 1953 should be the sixth highest of all time...