Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just in case anyone might interpret this as a sign that the Administration had really been shaken into doing something, Secretary of State Dean Acheson hastily discouraged the notion. The aid program had been conceived before the MacArthur dismissal, he pointed out carefully, and he insisted that the program meant no change in the U.S. policy of neutralizing Formosa. By the terms of the agreement, he explained, the Chinese government must use the material only for "internal security or its legitimate self-defense...
...Niffle meant a "human trifler, a man of straw and self-conceit ... in the popinjay class ... To call a man a niffle is to put him in his place, which is next to nowhere...
...Thribble meant in Elizabethan times to muddle through, and Englishmen "are foolish to have lost...
Brandle once meant to befuddle with brandy-"Certainly ... a more gentlemanly term than some such current usage as 'well ginned...
...with their cameras, this time had only five pick-up spots. All shots were fed to a master control room at the Wardman Park Hotel, carried by coaxial cable to New York, where they were siphoned off to the networks and then fed back to Washington TV sets. This meant that images Washingtonians saw on their screens had to travel from Washington to New York and back (estimated time for the trip: one-454th of a second...