Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bedouins swarmed over Amman, with faces blackened by charcoal as a sign they meant business, Hussein began warily to consolidate his opening triumph. There were, after all, other armies in Jordan. He invited Abu Nuwar to take a fortnight's leave in Syria, and kept on former Premier Nabulsi (known as "the ten-faced man") as Foreign Minister in a new Cabinet. King Hussein carefully proclaimed that Jordan would stick to its policy of "positive neutrality" and reject "imperialism" and foreign alliances. Then he talked Major General Ali Hayari, who comes from Abu Nuwar's home village...
...garbled message received by Pulitzer Prizewinning Poet Mark Van Doren's parents when he married Charles's mother, Writer Dorothy Graffe, in 1922. Last week, however, the telegraph company suggested, helpfully, that Charlie might have meant "married...
...began to distribute a 162-session physics course by the University of California's Harvey White -the first full-length, high-school physics course ever put on film. The series is to be used not merely to supplement the work of the high-school teachers. It is primarily meant for an estimated 14,000 high schools that have no trained physics teacher at all. With other such projects in the works, E.B.F. may not only become more and more influential, but for hundreds of schools it may well become downright indispensable...
...Josh to join Miri and himself for a summer stay at the family's New York country place. There Josh sees a half-enthralling, half-appalling sight, a patriarch in full possession of his powers, ordering women and children about as if that were the way man was meant to live. Lexy's father confides to [osh his views of American family mores: 'These parents, they live crazy, they divorce, they talk about being nice and they are not, and they make their children weak and bad, like sick things . My son, and my daughters, and little...
...break-down meant that the Crimson played the complete match on Saturday one man short in the scrum, and Dartmouth was unlucky not to score in the first few minutes of play...