Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...catch-can school of political debate. Full of fine indignation, the President labeled Republican opponents of his foreign policy as "these snollygosters."* Mr. Truman's tone left no doubt that a snollygoster was a low creature indeed, but few, if any, of his hearers knew what snollygoster meant. According to one austere authority, the word is "a lower grade of colloquialism." Of obscure origin, it was given classic definition in the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch, which in 1895 reported. "A Georgia editor kindly explains that 'a snollygoster is a fellow who wants office regardless of party, platform or principles...
...Strong denounced the Abolitionists and remained untroubled by the hanging of John Brown. Like many another Northerner, he rallied to Lincoln not because he hated slavery but because he loved the Union. He had hoped for compromise, but once he became convinced that the South meant to secede, his pages blazed with patriotic clamor and invective against the rebels...
...their tutors will now be able to meet with more regularity, and in a somewhat less hectic atmosphere than was formerly provided. Until this year the only place where Dudley tutors and commuters could get together was the Non-Residents Center itself, and even there lack of office space meant that such contacts were impossible except at mealtime...
Hickman was a good football coach, and there are a lot of coaches who would gladly settle for that much-maligned 16-18-2 four-year record. His competence meant little, however, to the Old Blue fanatics, who watched a Yale defeat on Saturday and then turned on their television sets on Sunday to see Herman, en masse, daring to smile and joke. This could not only be considered sacrilegious, it was sacrilegious...
Between his flirtation with death at sea and a busy affair on shore with a soulful but changeable girl, the captain ends his war in a moral frazzle. The skipper's problem, which is meant to symbolize the problem of the whole war generation, is to escape "the terrible pull of the dead." The pull drags the captain down to the ocean bottom quite literally, as a deep-sea diver, and there the lure of death almost claims his spirit. But at last a sensible miss hauls him up again, buffs the dull film of mysticism from his uniform...