Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...came the first Americans to see it, the Soviet satellite appeared "like a star and brighter than Jupiter." To Washington's Democratic Senator Henry Jackson, it was a partisan reason for proclaiming "a week of shame and danger." To Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington, it meant a frenzied call for a special session of Congress. To retired Defense Secretary Charles Wilson, it was merely "a nice technical trick." To hundreds of U.S. scientists, it was a marvelous scientific-technical achievement, a triumph of mind over universal matter-and at the same time a last-chance signal...
...moon has never been "considered as a race.'' It was "merely an engagement on our part to put up a vehicle of this kind." The achievement would be in terms of knowledge about "temperatures, radiation, ionization, pressures." To be sure, the Russian satellite meant possession "of a very powerful thrust in their rocketry, and that is important." But this, in current terms, was militarily meaningless: "I don't know anything about their accuracy, and until you know something about their accuracy, you know nothing at all about their usefulness in warfare." Even so, the President had deep...
North Carolina's Tatum, working behind the safety of a first-period touchdown, sent his ends deep, while his backs held onto the ball as if they never meant to pass. When Miami's defenders finally decided that those ends were merely a decoy, they moved up close to the line, and the Tarheel trap sprang shut. A pair of running passes set up North Carolina's second touchdown, and the Tarheels were out front for keeps...
...stand for the most frequently used letter E, and two stand for A, etc.-and then by cheating just a bit-he got the words: Elesennrela Ledelleemn Aam-leetedeeasen. After some more hocuspocus, he changed this to read: Elesennre Laede Wedge Eere Aamleet Edeeasen-which he was sure meant "Elsinore laid wedge first Hamlet edition...
Postulating a grey-as-ashes England where upper-class loss has not meant lower-class gain, Playwright Osborne writes of a young intellectual who looks back because he has no incentive to look ahead, and looks back in anger because he has no brighter past than future. Exulting in his wrongs rather than crusading for his rights, living in "the American age" but without sharing its rewards, Jimmy-at least on the surface-is resolutely a full-fledged Disorganization Man. But gnawing at him worse than have-not economics is the endemic English intestinal bug of class resentment. Happily, none...