Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...under no obligation to do so." Once Harriman spoke of the "very small sum" involved in mutual security. Connally glared, his big mouth popped open and his cigar tumbled ashes down his vest as he asked: "You call $7 billion a small sum?" Hastily Harriman explained he meant "relatively small" in comparison with the importance of strengthening the free world...
Eight days later, before a crowd of 20,000 in Buenos Aires' Plaza Constitution, El Ciudadano's Editor Francisco H. Uzal repeated the story. "There can be no doubt that these guns are meant for the C.G.T.!" he shouted. As Uzal walked off the speaker's platform, two federal policemen met him and led him away through the crowd to jail...
...Paris' highbrow daily Combat, who had already heard the mass in Paris' church of St.-Roch, where Father Martin's choir first performed it, found it "even more beautiful and imposing . . . Perhaps the foreign visitors . . . were able to feel what the Kingdom of France once meant." The Nouvelles Litteraires' Jean Wenger found the mass "marked with the seal of the 17th century, so fertile in its greatness." All in all, France felt proud of a glorious relic of its past-until the bubble burst, two weeks later. The mass, Musicologist Felix Raugel harrumphed to his astounded...
...Kandinsky never meant to lay down the law. He maintained that new discoveries in art are only "the organic development and growth of older truths [which] are not destroyed." There is no "must" in art, he added. "From this 'must,' art flees as day shuns the night." He wrote that "clinging to a 'school' . . . can only lead to misunderstanding, misconception, obscurity and mutilation. The artist should be blind to the importance of 'recognition' or 'nonrecognition' and deaf to the teachings and demands of the time. His eye should be directed...
...Lawyer Frank, the initials meant nothing. Then the bitter truth was spelled out: Petey's illness lay in the central nervous system. A series of tests was made, and the Franks learned the worst: Petey was suffering from what some of the doctors called cortical atrophy. A vital region of the brain was defective. Petey might never learn to walk or to talk; if he "grew up" at all, it would be slowly and ever so slightly...