Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...More Vote. He meant it. Over the weeks, the tax bill became burdened with such extraneous amendments as tax breaks for parents supporting college students, cutting the age for male social-welfare recipients, restricting imports on beef and lamb, and cutting the depletion allowance for oilmen. "Ah'm game for anything," announced Long. When Mike Mansfield tried to halt the farce with a compromise motion, so much confusion and misunderstanding resulted from the intricate parliamentary procedures that Mansfield ended up voting against his own amendment...
Canada's 6,000,000 French are concentrated in Quebec, whose motto is a meaningful "Je me souviens" (I remember). Originally they meant to establish New France in the New World. With the English conquest of a land that French explorers and Catholic missionaries had opened up, they turned fiercely inward to survive as a minority on a vast English-speaking continent. Ill-educated, church-dominated, cut off by language and often by prejudice from improving themselves, the French Canadians grew ever more provincial. Only after World War II did the "quiet revolution" of the French Canadians take form...
...lacking was not the quantity but the quality of the consultations. "I don't know what you mean," said the President, "I have the best Cabinet ministers there are-the finest Secretary of State and the finest Secretary of Defense." Kiesinger explained that by quality he really meant timing; after all, consultations are not worth much after the decision has already been made...
Becoming Herself. By "garbage," Hazlewood meant pain, heartbreak, worldliness. He carted it out of her, distilled it into a recording of his mildly rocking These Boots Are Made for Walking, which Nancy sang with all the cynical bite she could muster. Boots sold nearly 4,000,000 copies, and Nancy, outfitting herself with 250 pairs of boots, went stomping around the world on a promotional junket...
...rest of the competition is good too. Twelve teams finished ahead of Harvard last year when the Crimson ended up 42 strokes behind Penn State's winning total of 803. That meant a Harvard average of little over 84 shots per round...