Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Means. The Communists had expected to take over Malaya after World War II, but the British beat them to it. In 1948 the Malayan Communist Party passed a resolution advocating "the capture of power by the peasants and workers by any means." This meant going back to their hidden jungle camps and attempting to paralyze the country's life by terrorism and sabotage. Soon they were derailing trains, cutting telephone wires, ambushing police, murdering planters and holding up schools. Unwilling to call them "Communists," the British (who had recognized Communist China) labeled them "bandits"; afraid of skyrocketing insurance rates...
...caretakers of a rickety apartment house. Soon afterward, Pauline had gone to a permanent bed in the hospital. Adrien himself had become too weak to do even the odd jobs that were left to him. The presents he brought his wife on his regular trips to the hospital often meant going without meals himself. Yet, childless for 43 years of marriage, they both loved children, and their greatest happiness came each year at Christmas time when Adrien was asked to don his red suit and play Santa at the store and at private parties and small...
...Jerusalem bus would have had no objection to the two little girls in front of him, except for the fact that they were wearing their blue-and-white school uniforms. That meant that they were students at the Catholic École de Secours de Saint Joseph, and the man could not help exploding. "You are very wicked," he said to the girls, "very wicked for going to a Christian school...
...from Boston asked the price of two paintings. As Cowboy-Painter Russell told it later: "He was a plumb stranger ... so I said $50. And I'm a common liar if the fellow didn't dig out $100 and hand 'em over. He thought I meant $50 apiece . . . I didn't say a word. I just bought the fellow a drink and kept the rest. He don't know to this day how bad he beat himself...
...room, originally intended for Radcliffe use, is on the south side of Memorial Church. It contains no books, but all other studying facilities. A CRIMSON story Saturday referred to the building as "Memorial Hall"; what was meant was the room in Memorial Church, not the building itself...