Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world, as well as in the big cities and mainline towns, TIME'S traffic department made every effort to get copies out on schedule-or, at worst, not more than 24 hours late. In some cases, this wasn't possible. In Honolulu, for instance, the late printing meant missing a regular flight to Wake Island...
Forty years of service, in 40 years of great events, he said, had taught him the meaning of five words: "Peace, evil, unity, faith, hope." With the impressive sincerity that is the Eisenhower hallmark, he told what the five words meant to him, and how they would guide him in whatever decision the nation should give...
...General Assembly history, but all Russia's Andrei Vishinsky had to say was summed up in a 97-word proposed resolution: the job of bringing an end to the war in Korea should be handed over to a U.N. commission composed of "the parties directly concerned." This meant, obviously, North and South Korea, the U.S. and some, or all, of the U.N. allies; but would it also include Red China and Russia? Mr. Vishinsky...
...business of scientists working their heads off trying to discover something the old Shoshone Indians have known for ages is discouraging enough in itself, but why don't these myopic researchers take a course in simple Latin and discover what the old Roman botanical titles of these herbs meant in the first place? Even a schoolboy can tell at a glance that Lithospermum officinale means "seed petrified in the laboratory" . . . Gromwell indeed...
...November 1918, Lulu's mother, Crown Princess Cecilie, came into his room and told him between sobs, "The revolution has broken out. Gross-papa has abdicated. The war is lost." Lulu felt a most unhohenzollernly glee. That meant he wouldn't have to go to military school next year...