Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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None of this meant that U.S. citizens read the headlines from Korea without a sense of tension and foreboding-or a sense that the U.S. was proceeding too leisurely to arm itself against the threat of a World War. But few seemed to see anything incongruous in the fact that Milton Berle was billed as Mr. Dynamite simply because he could make foolish grimaces, or that hundreds of thousands of vacationers were lounging on beaches...
...afternoons unless his morning drawing lessons went well. Under such discipline, Francis Gruber grew up to be one of the finest draftsmen of his generation, though his lines almost never described round, soft shapes. Hard, mean, digging, they hinted constantly at the pain that plagued him. His death meant the disappearance, wrote Paris Critic Waldemar George, of "the only painter who was capable of giving to French art a sense of ... the human values. Our only consolation is to know that his teaching will not be lost. In the end, the young will owe him much...
...Frederic Christopher Dumaine got control of the New York, New Haven & Hartford two years ago, he figured that he could run a railroad just as well as the next man, and maybe better. Although railroad management was new to him, Financier Dumaine went right to work. That meant, first of all, cutting costs to the bone. He had learned the technique-slash wages, cut the staff and sales force, eliminate such "frills" as advertising-in such earlier business ventures as New Hampshire's Amoskeag Manufacturing Co. and the Waltham Watch Co. Amoskeag closed down...
...clubby congressional custom, this meant the advice and consent of the Senator whose home state is involved. Typical was the case of M. Neil Andrews, nominated for a judgeship in Georgia's Northern District. Georgia's Senator Richard Russell complained that he had submitted a nominee of his own and been ignored. "Personally obnoxious and objectionable to me," said Russell, using a ritualistic phrase. The corroborating chorus of noes was deafening...
...Particular Strain. The Senate, always sadder & wiser than the House, continued to debate. Still the most voluble and stubborn opponent of granting such executive powers was Ohio's Robert Taft, who talked as if all the mobilization now going on was meant only to lick North Korea, instead of preparing for something worse. "I do not intend to say that the Korean war is not a real war," he argued. "But from an economic standpoint, it is not any particular strain on the economy...