Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democrat" has meant to me race baiting, fiscal irresponsibility and obsequious relationships with custodians of organized-labor votes. Senator Dodd of Connecticut has shown me that "Democrat" can also mean statesmanship...
...from Moscow, Paris, Bonn and London flew the man hailed in British headlines as "Supermac" and enthusiastically billed, on the way to British elections, as political leader of the free world. With each approaching mile, the blips showed more clearly that Prime Minister Harold Macmillan meant to persuade the U.S. to relax some of its basic cold-war policies. Forewarned by London press leaks and by its own intelligence from Western Europe, the U.S. was partly forearmed; soon after Macmillan landed he was deliberately whisked away from the pressures and pressagentry temptations of Washington to the quiet of President Eisenhower...
Nikita Khrushchev proclaimed his wish to continue supporting Nasser, but at his press conference on Berlin threw in a few side remarks about the dictator of the Nile that were meant to wound and were bound to sting. "President Nasser," said Khrushchev, "is a rather young man and rather hotheaded, and he took upon himself more than his stature permitted. He shouldn't do it. He might strain himself...
...minds, and strive to become the vanguard on the physical-culture front." Chen himself gave due credit to patriotic inspiration. "During the jerk event, I was somewhat nervous," said he, "but just then I looked down at the responsible comrades of our country's athletic association. This indeed meant the ideas of the party were in me, encouraging me. This strengthened my determination...
...Movie. The western story was perhaps never meant to be told in words. Hollywood and the Wild West were made for each other, and it was love at first sight. The first real feature movie ever made, The Great Train Robbery (1903), was a western that introduced to the public a man who soon became the first of the great horse-opera heroes: Broncho Billy Anderson, a studio janitor who was drafted as a masked bandit. Hard on Broncho Billy's tracks came William S. Hart, a Minnesota farm boy who grew up among Indians. He rode a beautiful...