Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bronze by gold heard the hoofirons steelyringing imperthnthn thnthnthn,' wrote James Joyce in Ulysses. What he meant was that two barmaids, a redhead and a blonde were listening to the clatter of dray horses in a Dublin street" [TIME...
...blunders in atrocity figures meant cruel anxiety to the wives and parents of U.S. men captured or missing in action. Ridgway's staff had handled these figures with the very negligence and carelessness he had condemned in Hanley, and apparently had not even checked back on Ridgway's reports to U.N. before issuing the correction scaling down Hanley's figures. Result: a large part of the public is convinced that no one really has any idea whatever how many atrocities have been committed, or by whom...
...last week the number had increased to 125. Most everybody knew SACEUR (pronounced "Sack your" meaning the Supreme Allied Commander Europe, i.e., Dwight Eisenhower). They could guess at EB (the Executive Bureau of the Temporary Committee of the North Atlantic Council), but who could explain that SUSREP-NADPB meant Senior U.S. Representative North Atlantic Defense Production Board, or that CINCNELM meant Commander in Chief U.S. Naval Forces Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean? Whether a man was a MRS (Military Representative Standing Group) or a FLAGCENT (Flag Officer Central Europe), he was expected to know the difference between JAMAG (Joint American Military...
...Washington a State Department official, having worked out the key to a long cable in capital letters, puzzled over the word GAP, not being able to find it in his official list. An aide enlightened him: GAP meant simply gap, in this case the space between the amount of dollars needed in Europe and the amount the U.S. had to supply. It explained almost everything...
ever been given. It attempts to spell out what is meant by progressivism and liberalism and what they have contributed to American life, and in what particular respects the progressive tradition has been perverted by its alliance with imperialism or by its ties with the Communist Party...