Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since another part of that interest entailed a loan-for which Beck was a guarantor-to Levine's company from Seattle's First National Bank, Levine saw what Dave meant. "I asked Mr. Beck, 'Well, you win, what do you want?' He said, 'I would like to have my son as president of the company and to have him have the complete say-so of drivers and of trucks.' So I agreed. That is what I had to do." Junior promptly became K & L's president, and next day the whisky truck...
...Voroshilov was welcomed to Indonesia with a beaming embrace from President Sukarno. "The President of a big country with a big heart," cried Sukarno. Voroshilov returned the embrace, a 21-gun salute boomed out, Voroshilov admirers released a covey of "peace doves," and Voroshilov himself launched into a speech meant to please his hearers. He got as far as "The Indonesian people are well known for their industriousness," when the audience of several thousand Indonesians, knowing better, howled delightedly. Sukarno smiled; so without being quite sure what the joke was about did Voroshilov. After the greeting at the airport...
Nobody knew exactly what this meant, but critics promptly pointed out that the Chinese system was collectives, not cooperatives ; they warned that the individualistic Indian farmer would join a cooperative only if forced, and they saw jeopardy to India's proud position as a democratic alternative to Red China's coerced economy. But Agricultural Minister Jain promptly echoed the boss. "There is no other alternative but cooperative farming!" he cried...
Asked by Japanese reporters if friendly association meant that Australia was preparing to ease the sentences of 14 Japanese war criminals, Menzies said genially but uninformatively: "The whole matter is being approached in a most liberal fashion." In the glum pause that followed, Menzies raised his comedian's shaggy eyebrows: "This is a remarkable silence!" A Japanese reporter asked: "Has Australian public opinion reached the point where you may welcome Orientals as temporary or permanent residents?" Said Menzies in cheerful reply: "No; speaking in the broad, there's no such indication...
...Poland's Committee for the Reconstruction of Warsaw, to design a multistory apartment building for low-income families. Said Witold: "The competition was a plebiscite in which architects together with technical and economic specialists would freely decide how to build multistory apartment buildings under Polish conditions." That meant with relatively low costs for labor and high for material...