Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grueling period of vigilant waiting, determined preparation. The armed services announced that they would need at least 3,000,000 men by next June, which meant calling up another 1,200,000 within the next nine months. Director of Selective Service Lewis Hershey urged that the term of service be increased from 21 months to 30, that World War II veterans under 26 be included in the draft, that rules be changed in order to rope in more men claiming exemptions and men previously judged to be unfit. This was not a temporary program, Hershey said, but a program...
...There are three people to whom I can never say no," Robert Abercrombie Lovett once said. "My wife, Henry Stimson and General Marshall." In the past ten years, Bob Lovett has often shown that he meant just what he said...
...sudden death of popular ex-Governor Ralph L. Carr meant more to Colorado Republicans than the loss of their best chance to take the governorship back from the Democrats. Until Candidate Carr died of a heart attack just after the primary election (TIME, Sept. 25), they had figured that his name on the ticket would also be enough to carry able, unspectacular Eugene Millikin into another term in the U.S. Senate. Slipping off to the home of a national committeeman in Colorado Springs last week, the state's Republican leaders settled down to look for a successor who could...
...Baker's wake the main body of the Eighth Army thrust into the enemy's southwestern army. For many a G.I. the road back meant a settling of old scores. A tank gunner moving up to Taejon, where the 24th U.S. Division had fought a desperate delaying action before retreating on July 21, sang...
...which in the Negro slums of Chester, Pa.: "I never was a child. . . I was born out of wedlock. . . By the time I was seven, I knew all there was to know about sex and could outcurse any steveore. . .I knew that I was a bastard and what that meant. I've never in my whole life minded being a bastard. I've always found it can work both ways. If I wanted pity, I got it because I was illegitimate. And when I didn't want it and was mean and nasty, I always could...