Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them, we lose definitely and we know that. That would be the European Recovery Program . . . We either had to allow [Western Europe] to go Communistic or do something . . . There was the question of Greece. Unless we did something Greece would go wholly Communistic, and that meant probably Italy would and Turkey was then in a serious predicament...
Bushman explained that the clause meant that those high faculty members who have little interest in their advising position should be dropped from the board. A inotion to amend the report to emphasize this fact was defeated in a straw vote...
...tour was quite unlike any guide the tourists had ever seen before. "You must be very patient," he drawled as the bus pulled out of London. "You see, anything might happen on this tour." As the day wore on,-the sightseers saw just what 20-year-old Tom Stacey meant. The trip they took last week-the first ever run by Oxford undergraduates-was something to remember...
...common between ministers and laymen, Ribble is convinced, and he thinks he knows why: ministers don't know what their flocks believe or want to hear about. "They . . . assume knowledge in their congregations which isn't there . . . They use words and terms which at one time meant something to people; words which, however, seem not to be understood anymore-words like redemption, conversion and grace...
...chatter and burdened with too complex a structure. His final approach to his people is as simple and inadequate as a cliche: the rich, he feels, stink. This may or may not be true, but his novel never gets close enough to his people to prove it. What was meant as a clever portrait of social decay pretty much ends as a mannered exercise in claustrophobia...