Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were once held by two men. For many years the Speaker was also chairman of the Rules Committee, and the chairman of Ways & Means (which handled appropriations along with tax bills). The majority leader was the other major figure -and he was generally the creature of the Speaker. This meant in effect that one man held all the reins of power...
...some of the confusion stems from first exposure to literary jargon. A freshman in Humanities, analyzing carefully on a final, found that "Dante used Beatrice as a phallic symbol for divine love." When the exams were handed back, his section man asked him about it. "I thought phallic just meant sort of literary," he said...
Firm Stands. At session's end Anastas Mikoyan slipped into a wide-lapelled overcoat, informed newsmen that the talks with Dulles and Ike had been "a useful exchange of views." What Mikoyan meant by "useful" only he knew-and Nikita Khrushchev would presumably find out. But what Washington hoped he meant was this: that Mikoyan, despite the ardor of his reception elsewhere, realized that the two men who actually direct U.S. foreign policy have no intention of being bulldozed, bluffed or cozened out of Berlin or anywhere else...
Seed-Time. In 1948 Lysenko got official Communist endorsement for his "theories," which meant that anyone who challenged them was setting himself up against the party. A new wave of dismissals and Siberian imprisonments engulfed rival biologists and geneticists. In 1956, in the period of destalinization, Lysenko suffered partial eclipse. Party chieftains criticized his theories, and official journals exposed reports by his supporters as fakes; many of his victims were rehabilitated and reinstated. Soviet biology began to recover as a science...
...picnic, or spare their lives in a disaster. My family and I were in a train wreck a while ago in France. I had taken two of my children into the dining car ahead for some ice cream, and we were served unusually quickly-which meant that just before the wreck we had left the car, in which a great many people were killed. Some of my Christian friends talked about it as though we had been especially preserved. What egotism, to assume that God loves you more than the people who were killed...