Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Haunted like most British workers by deep-running memories of depression-time unemployment, they had instinctively stretched out their jobs as if there were no full employment now. Explained one: "We have never overworked, for that would have been against the true principles of trade unionism, and would have meant some of us joining the dolequeue." To make matters worse, their union's president, its general secretary, and eight of the twelve board members are Communists. In protest against the inspectors ("These snoopers are a new kind of Gestapo dreamed up by the Tories," was the usual Communist response...
Austria's prewar democracy had many pallbearers, but the most prominent, after Adolf Hitler, was a good-looking young blueblood named Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg. He was a fascist when the world barely knew what the word meant. In 1923, he stood by Hitler's side in the unsuccessful Munich beer hall Putsch. Back in Austria, he was fond of bleating such sentiments as: "We have much in common with the German Nazis . . . Austria will go fascist sooner or later. Better sooner than later . . . Asiatic heads [meaning Jews] will soon roll in the sands...
...World. President of the group and one of its most active members is Mrs. Robert G. Davidson, wife of a Chicago advertising man, who learned in June 1949 that her four-month-old daughter Patty was blind.* "What that meant to me," says Mrs. Davidson, "was that Patty would never be able to play like other children, never grow up to know the fun of dances, skating parties, sleigh rides. It was like the end of the world...
...word of the week in Sweden was religionsfrihetslag; it meant a new measure of religious freedom for Swedes...
Guston grew unhappy because he felt he was "just making pictures. I was overly conscious of what I was doing. Art isn't meant to be clear. Look at any inspired painting-it's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation . . . Toulouse-Lautrec's art isn't just pictures of dancing girls and cabarets; it projects some sort of internal world. And you couldn't exactly call Ucello an abstractionist. But he has the ambiguity I like...