Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...economic goals-"maximum production, employment and purchasing power"-that the Federal Government is pledged to foster. "An indispensable condition for achieving vigorous and continuing economic growth," said the President, "is firm confidence that the value of the dollar will be reasonably stable in the years ahead." What that really meant was that the U.S., in the absence of any reasonable hope for a relaxation of cold-war tensions, must go on trimming its fiscal sheets for a long beat to windward...
...early 16th century's age of discovery, maps of the world were exciting reading for up-to-the-minute Europeans. They changed every few years as new lands were discovered and old lands settled into their proper places. Map viewers gradually learned what latitude and longitude meant, and that a straight line on a map (Mercator's projection) is not always the shortest distance between two places...
...Lome flew three planeloads of French paratroopers, and a column of infantry moved in to cordon off the city. Angrily, the Togolese demanded just what the French meant by this show of force. French officers, equally puzzled, said they had come to stop a revolution. Asked the Togolese huffily: "What revolution?" At his shabby house, called La Hutte, the debonair Premier airily dismissed a guard assigned to protect him against assassination: "Go away. I don't need you. If you want to sit up all night at the alert, go to your camp and do it, but leave...
Never once did the British allow themselves to be drawn into the political wrangling. Instead, they contented themselves with a mild statement at the end of the meeting explaining that "our silence'' meant, not agreement with the anticolonial remarks, but only a "desire to preserve harmony." When Guinea, the only French territory to vote non to De Gaulle, proposed a resolution asking for special consideration from the U.N. in view of its "desertion" by France, the French merely stared ahead in silence, did not even bother to vote against the resolution. Africa's independent nations were clearly...
...things that were correct, and to be correct you can only deal with the government to which you are accredited," said Earl Edward Tailer Smith, the stockbroker and former member of the Republican National Finance Committee (for Florida) who became U.S. Ambassador to Cuba in 1957. Being correct meant keeping in contact with Batista, and that, to the new rebel government, constituted support for Batista. Last week, after the U.S. became the twelfth country to recognize the new Cuban government, Ambassador Smith, 55, cleared the way for cordial relations by resigning...