Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While lambasting Truman, Byrd's main message was one of tactical caution. He said no word to encourage formation of a Dixiecrat party. "We must meet the conditions as they develop," was Byrd's theme. That meant that the anti-Truman Southerners would stay in the party, and try to win concessions at the Democratic Convention. If Truman is nominated and no concessions are forthcoming, Southern leaders might consider a candidate of their own. Their choice: Georgia's able Senator Dick Russell, who is shrewdly silent on his own attitude toward 1952. Or, if Eisenhower is nominated...
...when Joe Ryan, burly boss of the International Longshoremen's Association (A.F.L.), made a happy announcement: the union had voted, 2-1, to ratify a new two-year contract. That certainly didn't sound as if a strike was coming, but that was just what it meant on the New York waterfront...
...could afford it, but we could never take your football. I went to the Dartmouth game, and I'm still in a bloody daze. It's not the players so much but the daffy crowd. All the ballyhoo and cheering and such. But I guess that's what's meant by American spirit...
Beside a Quonset hut at Kimpo Airport, more than 100 tired, unshaven infantrymen lolled in the dust, waiting patiently for planes that would take them to Tokyo. For some, Tokyo meant the first leg of the trip home. For others it meant only a temporary break in the dirty business of war. They had no yarns to swap, no desire to learn any more than they already knew about war. From a few groups came the click of dice, and the only voices audible over the distant roar of engines were the urgent pleas of crapshooters. At one group...
...return, she was made a lifetime official consultant and adviser to the Hearst corporation on editorial policies, at $1 a year (Miss Davies, who is reportedly worth about $10 million, wanted no money). She will be given the same "courtesies" of the empire that other executives have. The agreement meant that Marion Davies would be brought back from Coventry by the Hearst papers (her name has hardly appeared since the Chief's death), and more important, she will again be able to have stories published about her friends and pet projects...