Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that though it wouldn't be easy, the U.S. would somehow climb out of this hole. No one was eager for war; it would be harder to go than last time-jobs were better, bank accounts bigger, cars were never newer, and the U.S. knew (partly) what war meant. Veterans said resignedly: "If they want me, they know where to find me." But there was no suggestion that Korea was far away and none of our business. The U.S. citizen, who had had to be told that Hitler was a threat, didn't have to be told this...
...still air-bound, U.S. newspapers blossomed with Tokyo stories quoting a "reliable source" on what MacArthur would have to tell him. It was a cogent last word: 1) the Korean war would be useless if the U.S. did not fight Communism wherever it arose in Asia; 2) this meant backing Chiang's Nationalists, the British in Hong Kong, and the anti-Communists of Indo-China, Siam and Burma; 3) anything less than this firm, determined action would invite Communism to sweep over all of Asia...
...pennant of baseball's 1949 world champions was missing from the Yankee Stadium last week. A speakers' stand stretched across the infield, and huge posters plastered the stadium, bearing messages like Saarnaa Sanaa and Pregetha y gair. They all meant the same thing: "Preach the Word" (II Tim. 4:2). Beneath this slogan, spelled out in 77 tongues, some 77,000 hot, hungry and happy Jehovah's Witnesses had gathered together from 48 states and 68 nations...
South-Southeast. Half-Indian, half-Irish Author Menen's little parable is fair sport as far as it goes, but it is a comedown from his witty and pointed satirical novel about the British in India, The Prevalence of Witches (1948). The Backward Bride seems meant to be profound in a Shavian way when it is not trying to be like Norman Douglas' South Wind. It is as far from either model as it is from the double target roughly caricatured in the description of Professor Lissom. The professor is somewhere south-southeast of Philosopher Bertrand Russell...
...tore bigger & bigger patches out of the maze of ramshackle houses. Sewage piled up in gutters, disease spread and Chungking rats grew fat and impudent. The air-raid warning system was complicated: in addition to sirens, colored lanterns were hung from poles at night (when they were lit, it meant that the enemy was approaching; when they were suddenly dropped, it meant that the planes were almost over head). But the system worked. Night after night most of Chungking's people trudged to the big caves outside the town where most of them slept; morning after morning, they emerged...