Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...above the golf pro's shop at the Augusta National course. Into the office flowed messages updating the President on the twists and turns of a new crisis: the Russian push to end four-power occupation of Berlin (see FOREIGN NEWS). Whatever the Russian maneuvers meant, there was only one course for the U.S.: to stand steady. Announced President Eisenhower through Press Secretary James Hagerty: "Our firm intentions in West Berlin remain unchanged...
...meeting by Administration Department heads. Said he, flatly: "I don't accept this." Last week, following up his refusal, he issued a memorandum ordering all department and agency heads to stay strictly within the budget limits set by tightfisted, hard-minded Budget Director Maurice Stans. The President, who meant to work at enforcing his order, had set himself to one of the toughest jobs of his White House life: a no-holds-barred effort to present to the 86th Congress a balanced budget after a crisis-ridden year in which the U.S. is going about $10 billion into...
...strangers who sang the slanderous lines. For a while, the ballad was banned in Jackson, Tenn., where Janie Jones lived out the long, lean years. With the help of a ghost writer, she tried to clear herself in a new version of the song: "My Casey, Husband Casey, who meant the world...
...three-truck U.S. convoy was stopped for eight hours at the West Berlin gateway-but by Soviet, not East German guards; and hundreds of other trucks passed through without difficulty. In Moscow Nikita Khrushchev told graduates of Moscow's Military Academies that the Soviet Union had not meant to imply the use of force at Berlin, but that his government would soon offer the U.S., Britain and France "definite, concrete proposals regarding the status of Berlin...
...like old times in the famed wooden geisha houses along the river Sumida. A geisha party before the war meant soft lights from many-colored lanterns, the tinkle of the samisen, a mossy garden with elegant dollhouse trees, a banquet starting with pickled sea-urchin eggs, dried seaweed, bonito entrails, mushrooms, and cuttlefish served with maple leaves and chrysanthemums. Above all, it meant the geisha girls themselves, in lacquered wigs and colorful kimonos, who poured sake from porcelain vases, performed their slow and discreet dances, and sang their sad, seductive love invitations...