Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...These are high-flown expressions," rejoined Connally, "designed to create the right kind of climate-if the Senator knows what is meant by that statement." Massachusetts' Republican Saltonstall came unexpectedly to Connally's aid. The words merely created "a climatic background in which treaties can be made," he elaborated hopefully...
Only a few weeks ago the Labor government had held out no hope of increasing the ration. Extra petrol meant spending extra dollars, since 36% of Britain's supply must come from U.S. companies, and spending dollars meant going without timber for houses and food for lunch. The government, many Britons knew, had been busy since last November with some sort of negotiations with U.S. oil companies, but the only result seemed to be a decision to cut dollar-spending even more. Then, one day last week, Fuel Minister Philip Noel-Baker rose in the House of Commons...
Then the jackpot winner had the chance at another question he had long and longingly anticipated. What, asked the announcer, did Bernardo plan to do with his money? Bernardo replied: "I intend to give the entire amount to the Social Aid Foundation ..." The announcer beamed. Everyone thought he obviously meant Evita Peron's richly endowed, much publicized Social Aid Foundation. But Bernardo continued, firmly and clearly: ". . . the Social Aid Foundation of the Socialist Party, of which I happen to be a member." Throwing caution to the winds, the audience burst into cheers...
Dallapiccola had had no such narrow texts in mind; he thought his story might apply to men everywhere. He had set his Kafkaesque libretto in the reign of Philip II of Spain (1556-98), though he obviously meant it to apply to contemporary times...
...between the movie theater and the combination city hall and volunteer fire station. When Jack moved into the editor's chair at 21, succeeding his father (who founded the paper), he was aiming high: "Well, sir, I started out to reform the world." In practice, explains Blanton, this meant getting the Democrats back into power in Washington, D.C. Jack was more successful at covering the news of farm, livestock and plain people in Monroe County...