Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...United Negro College Fund wrote the Council a thank-you note for its help. "We didn't read the letter carefully, Beveridge explained. "We thought it meant Harvard was supporting the Fund this year." This supposition was aided by the Council president's admitting to a Y.P. member that the money was again going to the segregated "United Negro College Fund...
...Undoubtedly, no malicious intent was meant by the publishers . . . However, good-humored as one can possibly be, everything has a saturation point, and mine is near at hand. It takes years to mold a good character, and usually one joke can't tear it down...
That was the sum of his distinctions in 1946, when he decided to run for the Senate. His political qualifications seemed to be nil. His friends thought he must be joking or that he meant the Delaware state senate. He knew only one (retired) politician, had made only one speech in his life (to a Rotary Club). On that occasion, he could not be heard beyond the front row, and he was uneasy and ungrammatical. "It was just something I thought might could be done." he says...
...boom's new upsurge probably meant another hike in the cost of living. Though food prices had declined slightly (down eight-tenths of 1% in mid-September), other costs were rising. As federal rent controls expired last week, ceilings were dropped on 2,000,000 housing units (ceilings on the other 4,000,000 under federal controls were kept by local action). Landlords of many freed units wasted no time in jacking up rents. Though the boosts were limited in most places to about 10%, tenants feared that the landlords were just biding their time -waiting the day when...
...careful independence of mind. To one who still has what he feels to be the best of reasons in favoring the General, you seemed guilty of one intellectual sin you deplored, "the Big Oversimplification." To cite at least three instances of this: (1) "On foreign affairs, where he is meant to be an expert, all Eisenhower has offered is a restatement of Democratic policy on Europe, in terms just different enough to cause havoc abroad." It would appear that "containment," "negotiation," and "liberation" alike have suffered from the misdefinition which one-word characterizations invite. Nevertheless, there is an emphasis...