Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with her, sometimes her notebook. The afternoon session had started with 16 onlookers, but by now five more had stumbled back from lunch to see how the motion was progressing. At 2:57 Donahue sat up in his chair and said he "would take the matter under advisement" which meant he would render his decision in about ten days...
...Board that first examined the case that Clubb was too indiscreet to be a secure repository of secret information. Nevertheless, a month ago Clubb was allowed to retire with a pension of $5,800 a year; he announced that he had been cleared by departmental "processes," which everyone assumed meant State's investigating board...
When the questioning was over, Olga cried, joyously: "I want to thank you very much. It was the thrill of my life." She kissed three startled reporters on the way out. It had, if the Senators' expressions meant anything, been a wonderful, wonderful afternoon...
...Linda, 6, was puzzled because "men have hair on their chests but women don't." Vicky, 5, instead of praising the toothpowder of a new sponsor, Amion, announced: "I don't want that stuff. I want Colgate's." And Sandra, 11, asked her father what "S.O.B." meant...
Rancho Notorious (RKO Radio) is not meant to be taken seriously-even though it begins with a rape-murder and ends with Marlene Dietrich dying nobly for her fellow man. Director Fritz Lang has shaped his Technicolor western in the form of a cowboy ballad: the plaintive lyrics, sung by William Lee, set the stage for Arthur Kennedy's far-ranging manhunt of the foul fiend who dishonored and killed his sweetheart (Gloria Henry...