Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russians inside the embassy. No sooner had French tossed it into embassy grounds than it was retrieved-unknown to him-by an FBI agent who must have been keeping a close and effective watch on the Russians. The agent took one look, decided that "To Whom It May Concern" meant the U.S. Government...
Though the ouster of Pibul meant the loss of one of the Orient's most colorful political personalities, there was reason to believe that, in the long run, the change in Thailand might prove one for the better-for Thailand as well as for its SEATO allies, including the U.S. Pibul had often been embarrassingly pro-U.S. in his public statements (though his personal newspapers were bitterly anti-American), and because both he and General Phao were personally unpopular with Thailanders, the U.S. has in recent months been sharing their odium. While the new government was settling...
...estimate a 337,200-bbl. rate in December. Both Tidewater and Standard of Indiana appealed for quota boosts, held that the formula has actually cut their imports 22% below the levels they had planned to supply recently built U.S. refineries that are processing foreign crude. Tidewater charged the curb meant "confiscation" of its new $200 million refinery in Delaware City...
...Palace of Justice simply because it was Stalin-built. And when a person on the street was asked the direction of a certain street or square, renamed by the Communists, he would invariably desist from answering. Or he might say that if so and so street was meant (the original name), it was right over there...
Some dean in charge of these matters allowed as how the "untidyness" of Yalies had elicited a "great deal of criticism" from visitors, and went on to explain that "not conformity, but neatness" was the aim of the edict. That went without saying, and what the dean must have meant is that he prefers well-dressed conformity to a bunch of sloppy Joes or sloppy Elihus. Anyone familiar with New Haven knows that Yale has already achieved remarkable conformity without coats and ties...