Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Schuman Plan? The Marshall Plan, which you designate as a "healthy Truman reflex" to an emergency, indicates more than a little ability to look ahead . . . The record shows that again & again Truman acted in the interests of the long-range welfare of his country even when it meant obvious political disadvantage to himself...
...particular hung heavy over his head. Illinois' Governor Adlai Stevenson (who handily won renomination last week) was still trying to make up his mind as to whether he would be a presidential candidate. But he had promised to "clarify" his position some time this week. If the clarification meant yes, Stevenson would become the first real roadblock between Kefauver and the Democratic nomination...
...news was the negotiation by private British traders and the Chinese Communists of a $56 million barter deal-subject to later approval by the British Board of Trade. Britain would exchange textiles, chemicals and metals in return for Chinese coal, tea, soybeans and peanut oil. Talk of textiles was meant to tantalize the depressed cotton towns of Lancashire, but the whole deal rang a little phony. Obviously what mattered to the Chinese was the other 65% of the deal-the chemicals and the metals. "Our advice to members at present," said the F.B.I. (Federation of British Industries, the British equivalent...
Otto Dix is a German painter. He likes to growl, "I'm not so tender." And in pre-Hitler Germany he showed what he meant: cynical portraits of German prostitutes and socialites, gruesome oils and etchings of World War I. The Nazis didn't like the Dix kind of thing at all; they considered his powerful paintings deliberately calculated to spread despondency and alarm. They labeled him an "artistic degenerate," kicked him out of his art professorship at the University of Dresden, and destroyed all the Dix pictures they could lay hands on. Dix retreated to a German...
...speech before the American Association of School Administrators on April 7, President Conant has delivered a disturbing blast against private education. It is hard to tell from the newspaper reports of the speech exactly how far Mr. Conant meant to go, but one's impression is that he is made uneasy by the very fact that private schools--religious and secular--exist along side the public high schools. Not even the best private schools would seem to escape his strictures altogether...