Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deposits as a petroleum reserve for the Navy. The order was Harry Truman's last blow in a long-standing fight. He had twice vetoed bills in which Congress proposed to give offshore oil deposits to the states off whose coasts they lie. Last week's order meant that, to carry out their intention of giving ownership of offshore reserves to the states, Ike and the Republican-dominated 83rd Congress would have to accept the political odium of taking oil away from the Navy...
Torpedo on the Track. Savings in fuel and grease meant bonuses, and engineers were constantly chancing runs on nearly greaseless bearings. Keeping the creaky engines in trim meant long hours of extra work for the drivers, but a breakdown was never blamed on faulty equipment. It was always labeled negligence or sabotage. Fearful of punishment and goaded by high wages (up to 1,250 forints-about $100-a month), the engineers did what they could, but accidents were frequent, timetables seldom kept. Engineers who complained, disappeared...
Billy was not the only such Baltimore pupil. Just after New Year's, 300 school janitors, firemen and custodians had gone on strike, and 123 heatless schools had been forced to close down. For 80,000 of the city's 130,000 students, the strike might have meant a long extra holiday. But General Manager D. L. (Tony) Provost of station WBAL-TV got an idea...
...story is neither colorful nor sunny. He and Urmilla were desperately poor and abysmally ignorant. In Barataria they slept on sacking on the floor of their leaky hut, sold their milk and vegetables in the slum neighborhood where they lived, and tried to behave like grownups. For Tiger, that meant working his tiny patch of land, getting drunk now & then on rum bought on credit at the store of Tall Boy, the Chinaman, and occasionally beating up Urmilla. For Urmilla it meant doing the primitive housework, delivering the milk, worshiping Tiger, and having babies. Everything might have gone well enough...
...part, the committee's brand of "obscene" was also slapped on some books by such well-known writers as John Steinbeck, James T. Farrell, Erskine Caldwell and Italian Novelist Alberto (Woman of Rome) Moravia. Throughout the hearings the committee showed a disturbing fuzziness over what it meant by "objectionable matter." Since the committee itself could not decide, it seemed dangerous to recommend that existing federal laws be strengthened making it an offense for private carriers to transport "lewd, obscene or lascivious" books and magazines in interstate commerce. This could mean that a motorist might be arrested for carrying...