Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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None of this meant that Joe McCarthy was on the skids, or even groggy. In the midst of the fight over Matthews, in fact, he set the Administration's teeth on edge with a diversionary attack in another direction; he implied a threat to investigate Communism in the supersecret Central Intelligence Agency. Though bloodied, especially by the news to Wisconsin voters that the President was willing to speak out against his patronage of Matthews, Joe was still swinging as the bell ended his worst round...
...recent years; but it was already too late for the old dictator to choose and train a younger man. Had he calculated, in his last frantic seeking for a successor who would not throw away all he had won, on a balance of power? Was that what was meant by "collectivity of leadership"? In the milieu of bloody totalitarianism-his own creation-such an arrangement seemed like the product of a failing mind. Nothing was to keep so smart and faithful a student of the Stalinist method as Georgy Malenkov from eliminating one, two or ten thousand...
...wanted to succeed Churchill if Churchill should retire. Results: Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, 50.36%; Chancellor of the Exchequer Richard Austen ("Rab") Butler 35.5%. "The striking feature of the poll is the solid measure of support for Mr. Butler," observed the Mirror. "Even two years ago his name would have meant little to the public." A Gallup poll taken last April confirmed the Mirror's observation. Then the result was: Eden 64%; Butler...
Once, the sweep meant breaking up log jams with axes or dynamite. Today, logging's storybook excitement and din is again lost to unspectacular efficiency. If wood piles up behind rocks, or wanders high and dry up on the river bank. Jenssen will casually ignore it most of the summer. At length he will signal the gate-tenders of the great Gouin Reservoir at the St. Maurice's headwaters. Switches will be flicked. A flood of extra water will dissolve the jams and rush the beached wood along on its interrupted journey. Pushbutton logging is here to stay...
...legislators headed home last week, no one was ready to say flatly that William Stratton would outdo Adlai Stevenson's good record as governor. But after six months of Stratton, Billy the Kid had a different meaning in Illinois. It meant a hard-riding, fast-drawing governor who knows how to get what he wants...