Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...function of the democratic process, not the logistical impossibility of such a transfer. If the transfer were to take place, it would not be an "abdication of responsibility abroad," but rather a long-awaited acceptance of responsibility at home, a responsibility that has heretofore been met with programs meant to pacify dissident elements rather than alleviate problems. Isolationism, of course, is untenable today, and few responsible critics would endorse such a policy, but a thorough reassessment of our responsibilities will show that most of them lie untouched in our urban ghettos...
...reconstructed slum of Southwest Washington. Though not the first Negro to enter Hawthorne, Guy was the first to stay there, and eventually won a prize for being the best all-round student. Soon, though, he realized that he was a Negro, and some of what that meant. In an annual school forum on race relations, he shocked his white friends by saying: "Whenever I'm in a room with mostly white students, my hands begin to sweat...
...Beni Montresor's fairy-tale setting of The Magic Flute. In neither case was the performance on much more than a ho-hum level; in fact, Spanish Soprano Montserrat Caballe's first Met Violetta seemed an almost deliberate throwback to the bad old days when singers were meant to be heard but not seen...
...trade, said Dr. Zu brod, each factor of ten in that trillion cells is called a log, and in the first few years after Dr. Farber introduced methotrexate treatment, doctors found that they could knock off one or at most two logs, or zeros, from the cell count. This meant that more patients enjoyed longer remissions. Survival times began to creep...
...years ago that meant September 25, last year September 24. Following this regular route, Saturday falls on the 23rd this year, but meanwhile another Saturday has come in the back door and landed on the 30th...