Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coming Fast. The rejoicing meant as much to the nation as to Atlas' dogged crews. Despite the Sputnik furor and the panicky cries that the U.S. was lagging behind the Russians in missilery, Convair and the Air Force stuck stubbornly to a schedule that was programed for maximum effort long before Sputnik. Atlas will need many more tests-and particularly refinement of its guidance system-before it is a real operational weapon. But if, as they claim, the Russians have already fired an ICBM (3,500 miles, according to U.S. intelligence guesses), the successful full-range Atlas flight makes...
...philosophical generalization about occupation, this might have some validity. But it was not the people of West Berlin who wanted the West out. Khrushchev promised them their freedom, and the right to "private, capitalist ownership"; they were assured that the Soviet Union, by "placing orders"-whatever that meant-would assure their prosperity. They were told by Khrushchev that the U.N. in "one way or another" could guarantee their status as a free city. But they inhabit an island no miles inside Communist territory, and the Communists had refused to let U.N. observers into Hungary in 1956 when the chips were...
...strategic importance as the position from which 22 Red army divisions maintain Soviet military dominance over the whole East European satellite world, this hapless, cheerless rump of a country has such invaluable economic uses to the Soviet Union that Nikita Khrushchev is binding it to Russia by ties meant to last for years...
Martin will turn over the duties of his office to Edwin H. Sauer, Lecturer on Education in the Graduate School of Education. When asked whether Sauer's assignment meant he might eventually become Director of General Education A, Martin replied, "the choice of Sauer is not necessarily a portent...
...good break in the music business ever since his daddy, who piloted a Mississippi River ferry out of Helena, Ark., taught him how to play the guitar. Some records he had out were bombs, so he was happy to let Agent Seat call the shots, even if it meant a handle like Twitty...