Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...none other than Wisconsin's Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, self-appointed _ commander in the war on Communism in the U.S. From the moment McCarthy began to speak, it was plain that he was determined to continue his feud with Maryland's Millard Tydings even if it meant giving aid & comfort to the Reds themselves...
...meant that the Majlis was intimidated by the assassination of Premier AH Razmara, who had opposed nationalization of oil.* That was true, but it was only part of the story that had led up to one of the worst calamities to the anti-Communist world since the Red conquest of China...
Greenglass said that the plutonium was in the form of a sphere. He may have meant a hollow sphere, but more probably he meant that the plutonium was cut into small pointed chunks that would form a sphere of more than critical mass when pushed together by the "implosion." In the unexploded bomb, the pieces were probably separated just enough to keep them from acting as a critical mass...
What all this meant was that after eight months of fighting in Korea the Army still had not been able to organize its supplies efficiently enough to equip its new soldiers. In Washington, Major General Herman Feldman, quartermaster general, had some good explanations for the drive. Though the Army was paying a good deal more for goods than the Government had sold them for, Feldman said that it was still paying a good deal less than the same goods would cost new now. Even so, the spectacle of the U.S. paying twice for the same goods made many a citizen...
...awarding these grants," said U.S. Surgeon General Leonard Scheele, "we are recognizing the plain fact that many cancer cases are seen for the first time by osteopaths." To the nation's 11,299 licensed osteopaths, however, the decision meant recognition of a far wider sort...