Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact was that for UNESCO, mañana still meant the day after tomorrow...
Last week 109 men of the congregation gathered in a stormy meeting. By an overwhelming majority, they reinstated the three Masons in the Fisherville church for a one-year probationary period. Nobody bothered to explain what "probationary period" meant. Pastor Bauer announced that if a call came to serve another congregation, he would accept...
Spokesmen for the companies, hastening to put in a commercial plug, were cheery and unchastened. As the Inhiston people saw it, the agreement meant that the FTC "now permits antihistamines to be advertised as a safe and effective treatment for symptoms of the common cold." Said Kenneth C. Royall, attorney for Ana-hist: "The stipulation permits the company to represent the efficacy of Anahist substantially as it has ... in the past. This includes the representation that when taken as directed Anahist is safe-as previously found by the Food & Drug Administration...
...Chavez brothers-Candidate David and U.S. Senator Dennis-this meant the failure of an elaborate hope for a Chavez dynasty in New Mexico. For the Democratic Party, without its customary portion of vote-getting Spanish names, it meant that "native" voters might drift back to the Republican Party (where they had been before they became what one politician calls WPA Democrats). If enough switch over, they might hand the governorship to the Republicans in November. "It could be," admitted one worried Anglo Democrat, "that they'll give us the old adios this year...
...Hell and Back) Cinemactor Audie Murphy announced: "I've been fed up with that 'most decorated' business for a long time. I realize it is an honor, but only because it symbolizes the work done by a lot of other guys, too. It has never meant much...