Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most important, they agreed not to let a drop of their urine go to waste for three weeks, though this meant having a technician follow them around in offduty hours. Dr. Bourne wanted these round-the-clock specimens because the chemicals in them would reveal what levels the stress hormones had reached each day. Despite some unavoidable misses, he got 76 day-and-night samples from the group. He froze part of each and sent the specimens by air to Washington for analysis...
...administrator for manned space flight. His job went to the deputy director of the Houston Manned Spacecraft Center, George Low. NASA insisted that Shea was not being demoted. But even Shea's friends were unsure what his appointment as aide to Manned Space Flight Chief Dr. George Mueller meant. As one of them put it, "If Joe stays in Washington, it'll be a promotion. If he leaves in three or four months, you'll know this move amounted to being fired...
Nerve Center. Since its creation in 1951 under General Dwight D. Eisenhower, SHAPE had meant a great deal to France. As the nerve center of NATO, it brought to Paris the best military brains of the Western world. The mounting and maintenance of its arsenal in France accounted for fully 25% of France's foreign earnings, employed more than 20,000 French workers...
When the closing bell sounded at the New York Stock Exchange last Friday, floor brokers ended one of the more somnolent sessions of 1967: a mere 8,130,000 shares changed hands. Only last year, volume like that would have meant headlines. But no longer-for Friday's bell also rang out the biggest, fastest trading quarter in Big Board history...
...also describes in detail the microcosm of a boy's world dissolving into unspeakable and incomprehensible patterns of horror. Each day was a constant obsession with the search for a crust of bread, the feverish reading of newspapers and posted orders for fresh fiats, since a nuance missed meant death...