Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Colored People, recalls that back in the days when there were three or four lynchings a year, it was a lot easier to raise funds than now. A great Negro leader, the late James Weldon Johnson, once said that leadership was a form of escape; by this he meant that "Negro spokesmen" might gain a lot of prestige by making speeches and gathering personal followings, but did not really accomplish very much. Today's Negro leader concentrates on getting things done on specific issues. Emancipated to a large extent from the white professional liberals and their pet slogan, "education...
...meant to take my exhibition to Rome, just for fun, but I won't have enough paintings left. I never expected such success. And when I think of how and why I began...
...concept of free speech. It has simply held that the recalcitrant witness may not be convicted of contempt when the government fails to establish affirmatively that the question which he failed to answer was "pertinent to the question under inquiry." In the Bowers case the application of this principle meant that a defendant summoned before the Kefauver Committee could not be convicted of contempt for his refusal to state what business he carried on in Chicago in 1927, to inform the Committee how he had earned $5000 in 1942, or to say whether he know William Johnson, the president...
...Force canceled orders for $100 million worth of J47 jet engines made by Packard and Studebaker under license from General Electric, the primary producer. The cancellation amounted to a one-third cut in Studebaker and Packard engine orders, and meant that the two companies' engine contracts would end some time next year...
...main thing about Jimmy Magnall was that he meant to get ahead. But what was just as important was the fact that he did not mind using other people on the way up, cheerfully trampling them if they were still around after they had stopped being of use. And who was Jimmy? A nobody, really; in 1919 just a cocky kid from Birmingham, not long out of the army, and trying to make his way in a postwar London that had far fewer jobs than hungry Jimmies looking for them...