Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Germany could mean the beginning of the end of a primary cause of age-old hatreds in the West. Last week's announcements from London-of a permanent Atlantic Treaty strategy committee, of the Atlantic nations' aim to build toward a balanced, collective military force (see INTERNATIONAL)-meant that free men were no longer sitting on their feet and wringing their hands, but moving along a steady road...
...London decisions meant also the abandonment of a once-cherished concept of balance among its own Army, Navy and Air Force. The Armed Forces Day parade in Washington, marching past Harry Truman and other dignitaries (see cut), perhaps marked the last time the three services would be roughly equal in strength and cost. From now on, the U.S. Navy and Air Force would expand, and the Army would likely get less, as the U.S. fitted its needs and skills into the common pool of Western defense...
...Williams man was more than two over par, which meant some pretty one-sided defeats for the varsity. Captain Bob Matson dropped his match 5 and 4 despite a 78, Herb Mee and Jack Denton lost 6 and 5, and Paul Welssman and Dusty Burke were defeated 7 and 6 and 5 and 4, respectively...
...Secretary, on his way to the London conference, had in effect said that Western Europe had bet ter get going in its conduct of the cold war and it had better lift its defenses out of the blueprint stage. As Schuman interpreted the Secretary's views, Acheson meant that everyone would have to make real sacrifices for a real defense system-and a real defense would be impossible if Western Germany were to be left...
Incoming President Pannell will take over her new post July 1. For the 450 girls at fashionable, forward-looking Sweet Briar, her appointment meant that everything would go right on running just as smoothly and amiably as ever...