Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...treasonable conspiracy. Later, Yakovlev conveyed the commendation of his masters in Moscow for Greenglass' sketches: "Extremely excellent and very valuable." At the Rosenberg trial, a U.S, atomic expert, examining a duplicate sketch drawn by Greenglass, testified that it showed the atom bomb substantially as perfected. And he meant the improved wartime Abomb, the implosion type used at Nagasaki...
...this we conceive to be a precious part of our way of life and outlook." While there will never be a bad season for praise of Britain's contribution to the history of liberty, this passage was taken as another criticism of McCarthyism in America-and was meant to be so taken...
...Syngman Rhee did only what he had warned he would do. The U.N. Command, and the rest of the world, had long regarded Rhee as an obstreperous but powerless old man who might threaten but would be brought to heel. Now an awful realization dawned: maybe the old man meant what he said. For Rhee, the release of the prisoners was entirely consistent. In more than half a century of fighting for a free and united Korea, he had made it clear by his acts that he was prepared for anything, from torture to an open break with his allies...
...finish, it was Navy by more than a length; it meant the intercollegiate title and Navy's 20th straight victory, longest undefeated record in rowing history. A surprisingly strong Cornell crew nipped Washington for second place. After the race, Navy Coach Callow, 62, dean of U.S. crew coaches, handed his team an accolade: "The greatest I have ever coached." It was Callow's hail & farewell to an eight-man crew of seniors. Same day, his junior varsity crew, on which Navy must build next year, lost to Washington's j.v. by six lengths...
...which the London Daily Mirror retorted: "It's a game, Mulloy. It's a game. Games are meant to be for fun. Games are played for pleasure...