Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Something euphemistically called the Georgia Commission on Education was only a one-stenographer state agency charged with inventing anti-integration laws until Redneck Governor Marvin Griffin decided that it was meant for bigger things. To the unexploited office of commission executive secretary he appointed an ambitious, possum-shaped Atlanta lawyer named T.V. (for Truman Veran) Williams Jr., 26. Williams soon multiplied the commission staff by ten, moved into prominent quarters across the street from the state capitol. He talked the legislature into giving him the power of subpoena, plenty of money for a dreamy assortment of private-eye equipment-long...
...Farouk, and who vowed to clean out the corruption of the greedy pashas. He seemed the promise of an honorable Arab future: unlike decadent rulers, or their wealthy retainers, he seemed to want nothing for himself. He lived simply with his wife and five children. He said-and doubtless meant it then-that he had come to power to bring political freedom and a better economic lot to Egypt's miserable millions: he would be a benevolent dictator until democracy was possible. The hundreds of foreign visitors who met him over the years found him reasonable, courteous, smiling, earnest...
...What it meant to the economy was that the moneyed U.S. farmer was fast becoming a pillar of strength, buying and consuming with rare power to pick up the slack from other social groups. To many a businessman, the strongest market of 1958 is the farm market-the equivalent of discovering a rich, import-hungry foreign country. In Bloomington, Ill. Sears, Roebuck reports that its trucks go out loaded with freezers, ranges and refrigerators; on R.D.S. routes freezer sales alone are running 50% ahead of last year. Nor are appliances the only things that farmers want. With cash...
...substituting clay figures for the human retainers who customarily had been buried alive with their masters. Historians scuttled this colorful explanation by discovering that Haniwa figures were not made until centuries after inin's rule. Best bet is that the Haniwa figures, along with houses and boats, were meant to console the dead. Says Expert Fumio Miki: "We can only surmise from the data on hand that they were grave decorations, much in the manner of flower wreaths used today in Japan...
...Brent), demonstrates what has become of Novelist Burroughs' inarticulate hero, the offspring of titled British parents whose deaths left him as a child to the motherhood of the jungle. The pristine Tarzan of the screen who hated all white men-although his name, in Burroughswahili, meant white (tar) man (zan)-is now the champion of modern medical science. Tarzan 1958 knows a simple defense against the slings and arrows of mumbo jumbo. His prescription: "Take pill quick...