Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fathers insist that they do not influence the sons. "When Terry first started writing," says Red Smith, "I used to interrupt him and ask why he used one word when he meant another. Later, it occurred to me that it might bother him. So I stopped." James Reston pondered the fact that his son might be "cast into the old man's shadow. It's a psychological problem. No proud kid wants to go and hear: 'You're Scotty Reston's son.' " But the kids don't seem to be intimidated by their...
...presumptuous," Eugene Kinasewich, assistant dean, remarked. They also resented the HUC's effort to pressure them with a college-wide poll on parietals. Nevertheless, the Masters agreed informally to meet with the HUC. But when it was reported that Magraw considered such a meeting "unprecedented" and hoped it meant recognition by the Administration of a greater role for students in decision-making, the Masters and Deans were further alienated. They devised the details of the meeting with the Council in such a way that it could not be construced as unprecedented--the Masters would simply be invited to Dean Ford...
...were wiped out in 1948 in a gallant stand that helped save Jerusalem from the Arab Legion. Fearing that the move might be a test for further permanent Israeli settlements in conquered territory, the U.S. State Department asked Israel to clarify its intentions. Jerusalem replied that the settlement was meant to be a military garrison, and that no other settlements were planned that would prejudice peace talks...
Knopf said that moving the Harvard Business Review from Gallatin House would leave that smaller building free for faculty offices. He said that two newer buildings built there in the past year, Humphrey and Dillon Houses, were similar to Gallatin House and were meant exclusively for faculty offices...
...cohesive unit. Boston has long had the reputation as an undisciplined, live-it-up team, and has been a graveyard for managers. When Williams came onto the scene, he laid down the law: no overweight players, no sore-armed pitchers, no lazy self-centered attitudes. He showed he meant business by benching his good players when they started to lapse back into their old habits...