Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...members would regard an attack on one as an attack on all. In addition, eight other nations in NATO, including the U.S. and Britain, would treat a threat to EDC as a threat to their own security. Since West Germany belongs to EDC but not to NATO, this meant an advance of the West's line of defense 200 miles farther east-from the Rhine frontier to the Elbe border of West Germany...
...inclined to agree, for the Republicans have failed to carry a single major election in Texas since the Party was formed a century ago. By the Taft Texans' standard, when the last man living who voted for Alf Landon passes away, the Republican Party would do likewise. If they meant what they said, perhaps that is the way they want it to stay...
...Poet Pound meant tumefied, i.e., swollen...
...words flew by -retrousse . . . shibboleth . . . oleaginous . . .-Doris Ann hardly knew what they all meant. Finally came cicerone, which Doris Ann thought had a final "i". Marjorie got it right, but she promptly missed farraginous. Doris Ann got that one right, but she still had one more word to go before she could claim the winning $500 and the free trip to New York...
...letter to Wood, Playwright Hellman had said that she would be willing to tell all about herself, unless that meant getting old associates in "bad trouble." In an odd illustration of her point, she refused to state whether she had ever known a screenwriter named Martin Berkeley, a "cooperative" witness who had helped get Lillian herself in trouble...