Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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King Hussein of Jordan for outlasting the year-if he outlasts it-in spite of the warm friendship of his Arab allies and the well-meant advice of John Foster Dulles...
Helpless Fury. Distribution was the major problem, and in Indonesia's island republic, that meant ships. But most of Indonesia's ships are Dutch, and so are the captains. There are hardly any Indonesian pilots, and government officials dared not order Dutch captains to sea lest they surrender their ships to hovering Dutch warships. As the government's fury at its own helplessness mounted, Premier Djuanda and Army Chief of Staff Major General Abdul Haris Nasution arbitrarily ruled that "all waters around, between and connecting the islands belonging to the Indonesian archipelago ... are an integral part...
...science, is the Zodiac Man (opposite) drawn for Jean de France, Due de Berry, between 1413-16 by the famed manuscript illuminators, the Limbourg brothers. Now one of the treasures of France's Condé Museum and a magnificent compendium of astrological lore, it was meant for the use of physicians, giving the proper time for bloodletting, purgatives, medication and even bathing. Showing a universe divided into quadrants composed of the qualities (moist, dry, cold and warm), and put in harmony with man's organs and appendages (Leo governs the heart; Pisces governs his feet) as well...
...only means to transcend it. "The bad artist seems to copy a great deal," he wrote. "The good one really does." Instead of the common modern view that painting ought to be an end in itself, he considered art merely a means of showing "truth." And by "truth" Blake meant his own spiritual insights and occasional visions...
...Bill Stern that he can talk like that. He condemned Harvard for getting beaten by Yale. He condemned the Harvard School. He said something about tearing down the football field. I didn't quite understand what he meant by that. He condemned Johnny Yovicsin as a coach. An unknown. That's when my blood began to boil...