Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people in the rally crowd last night who thought the Crimson will win today. Newly-elected captain Warren "Red" Wylie spoke, and after bemoaning the "tough road trip" Wylie touched on the home stand. "We'll win four out of the next five," he said, and he meant...
...Italian army officer and a Russian mother, Rossi did not decide on a singing career until 1943. Up to that time, he meant to be a diplomat. But after a spell in the Italian army he became a partisan liaison man with the Allies, and began to roar out folk songs at soldier parties. He won so much local fame that the mayor of Verona asked him to sing a concert. Since then, Rossi has studied opera with the devotion of a monk. By last year, his big bass had filled every major opera house in Italy and several...
...everyday routine in an old-school Orthodox home might make a Scotch Presbyterian Sunday seem frivolous. But Louis seemed to have been born with a rabbinical cap on his head. "I can't remember a time," he says, "when anything meant more than the study...
Then came the punch line: "But you're a big girl now. You need a [So & so girdle]." To show what was meant, the ad offered a full-length back view of a shapely brunette of voting age, presumably just before or after bathing-her derriere imprisoned ("dwindled down") in a patented cylindrical casing designed to make it look as much as possible like that of a bee or a racing...
Just before Christmas 1758, George Washington, 26, late colonel of militia in the French & Indian War, went home to Mt. Vernon. He had fought well; now he could settle down to the life he was meant for, the easy rounds of a well-to-do Virginia planter. He married a comely widow named Martha Custis, took on the responsibility of two stepchildren, and began thinking about improving his estate and buying more land...