Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reported that the heavily residential neighborhood around the Paul Doumer bridge spanning the Red River (the city's limits at that point) had been "devastated." The French Communist daily L'Humanité also said that the Chinese embassy had been "touched by a projectile," whatever that meant. Peking caught the clue, soon put out a dispatch claiming that U.S. planes had "dive-bombed" the embassy and hit the nearby office of the New China News Agency...
...Gaulle's Nose. Is Astérix meant to be De Gaulle? "I cannot stop people from seeing political analogies where I merely intended to be funny," says Goscinny. Yet a recent cartoon in the French weekly Le Canard Enchaîné pictured Astérix with De Gaulle's nose; he and Premier Georges "Pompidouix" are shouting "Amérix go home!"-not to Romans and their "S.P.Q.R." but to foreign troops with "U.S." on their helmets. Le Monde Columnist Robert Escarpit explains the Astérix cult this way: "These invincible Gauls, barricaded in their...
...valuable save; it meant that when M.I.T.'s Keith Davies (177) suddenly pinned Paul Padlak at 7:27 of their match, the score was 22-10 and too far out of reach for M.I.T.'s star heavy-weight, Dave Schramm to do anything about...
...sold its interest to a group of 15 pension funds, universities, hospitals and individuals. It had to pay $1,000,000, covering legal fees and a commission, to the Wall Street firm of Laird & Co., which arranged the transaction. But the sales price, along with the yearly royalty payments, , meant a cool $25.5 million collected from Listerine...
...commissioned like magazine articles. The nonbook flourishes more than ever, sometimes recognizable by its title: Murray The K Tells It Like It Is, Baby; How to Make Yourself Miserable; The Red Chinese Air Force Exercise and Diet Book (a spoof). Human Sexual Response, a technical laboratory discussion, was never meant for the general reader, but it has been on the bestseller lists for 31 weeks on the strength of its title and clinical content. Typically, it has spawned two illegitimate children, What You Should Know About Human Sexual Response and An Analysis of Human Sexual Response, both mere condensations...