Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Body Shop." Dazzled and obviously infatuated in its turn, the Air Force did something last week that Molly thought was even nicer than giving her free airplane rides. It commissioned her a lieutenant colonel in the WAF Reserve. This meant that Molly (with Maine's Senator Margaret Chase Smith, who was also recently commissioned a lieutenant colonel) was outranked by no woman in the WAF except Colonel Geraldine May, WAF commander...
Attlee's game of musical chairs meant more power for Bevan and Dalton, both members of the Labor Party's anti-U.S. (but not pro-Red) left wing, which Right-Winger Attlee has consistently appeased. In recent months Bevan has stubbornly opposed British rearmament, has fought tooth & nail against more defense spending if it meant curtailing his social services. Attlee may hope that as manpower boss, a key defense post, Bevan would find it in his own interests to help Britain's defense program...
...East and West alike our spiritual and intellectual leaders will seek new dimensions and they will find them . . . And they will bless the names of Marx and Lenin, not indeed for what they did and meant, but for having roused the rest of us from our slumber and forced us to inquire after our good and return...
...clubs] are carrying on the laudable activity of assistance, nevertheless sometimes there is undue devotion to monopolistic capitalism, and monopoly is condemnable, on both Christian and social grounds, as an offence against charity. The fact that non-members of Rotary Clubs are sometimes excluded from the benefits which Providence meant for all men . . . amounts to a condemnable monopoly...
Polite Little Smile. One of the most charming portraits in the show is of a beautiful five-year-old in a sailor suit, meant to be Vertès himself. At 55, he looks like a heavy-set Mephisto, whose brow, nose and mouth form three emphatic Vs. "My friends," Vertès admits, "smile a little at my self-portrait and say very politely, 'I don't think it's too much...