Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soliloquy for the benefit of newsmen, while he fed peanuts to the pigeons in Lafayette Square, he added: "I've been fired, and now all the influence peddlers can come back again . . . Yes, sir, everything was going to be cozy, cordial and comfortable until they found out I meant business...
Janos' pictures were peopled with little stick figures. Small suns represented days, flat circles indicated the passing years. His first drawing showed a house, baby carriage, and 13 of the yearly circles, the last one incomplete. Authorities guessed that meant he was 12½ years old. Just under the sixth circle, Janos drew a line and pointed at his mouth and ears to show when he had lost his voice and hearing. Two circles later, he pantomimed the shooting of a machine gun. A succeeding sketch, showing the dotted lines of bullets headed straight from the muzzle...
Last year, Irvin came into his own. He patrolled left field with the speed of a rookie, the finesse of a pro. Manager Leo Durocher called Irvin the most underrated player in the major leagues. To show that he meant what he said, Durocher recommended that his 1952 salary be doubled, up to a reported $25,000 a season...
...midweek came Stalin's answer to questions that a group of U.S. editors had telegraphed him. "Is a third world war closer now than two or three years ago?" they asked. Replied Stalin: "No." Although no one knew exactly what the exchange meant, commodity prices, which have been slipping, suffered their worst single day's break in weeks; spot prices for grains fell as much as 2⅜% per bushel, cotton futures tumbled as much as $1.75 a bale. At week's end the average of all commodity futures was at its lowest since...
Owned by Morris Roud, the store will feature a large line of stationery, novelties, and office equipment. Roud said his novelty line is meant for "those people between one and 100 who have a sense of humor...