Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second reassurance was meant for both European skeptics and American taxpayers. How could the West possibly defend itself against Russia's massed millions? Last week officials spelled out more explicitly the U.S. answer. Western forces, said Secretary of the Army Frank Pace Jr. in a speech at West Point, must "be prepared to meet these masses of heavily mechanized ground forces with smaller numbers of highly scientific ground troops equipped with revolutionary new weapons...
With that for a hint, anyone could see that Lebrun's Armour was meant to be Roman, and that the three bent nails in the picture were the ones driven into Christ's hands and feet. But taken by itself, the painting was merely a competent and somewhat somber still life...
...zealous Moviemaker Zanuck, the best part of living is his work: "It's silly to say money hasn't meant anything -but it has never been the primary consideration. Actually, nothing has ever given me the genuine satisfaction of taking pictures, seeing them through and then getting wonderful reviews. I love what I'm doing...
Maxwell and other members of the party have been looking forward to the climb for almost two years. Their preparations have meant months of work and an outlay of more than...
...market's history, without once suffering a major break. Some diehard bears still quibbled that the market was not actually as high as the Dow-Jones indexes* indicated, because many stocks not on the indexes had not broken their 1946 highs. But to many analysts this only meant that the bull market was still in its first phase...