Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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GIVING has never been easy-as the Magi, those first Christmas givers, discovered when they arrived with offerings fit for a king only to find a babe lying in a stable. Still, in the early centuries following that birth, giving was relatively simple. It meant giving up, a giving away of one's self or one's worldly goods in imitation of Christ. The matter grew more complex under the Protestant ethic, when gifts were bestowed as a reward or incentive for good behavior. St. Nick was long depicted as a scrawny saint who Carried presents...
...party paper Nhan Dan. "Bad habits such as bureaucracy, commandism and violation of mass rights still exist to a somewhat serious degree," he complained. Among the bad habits were "cases of dubious financial situations, corruption, abuses, incorrect borrowing and unrestricted eating and drinking." By commandism, Le Due Tho meant orders heedless of local needs and wishes, and simple snobbery: "A number of leaders in factories and at construction sites do not associate with workers and labor cells...
...people at dress rehearsal; the triumph of opening night, and the quietly joyous reunion of Price with her parents backstage afterward, in which she told her father that there was champagne in the icebox and please to leave her some. The camera even caught more than it meant to. During one rehearsal, Director Franco Zeffirelli unexpectedly waved onstage 226 extras, a gesture that cost Bell $15 a head in fees...
...Warren Center occupies one of the two buildings on the property, the yellow frame house which used to be the Community Services building. That location was meant to be only temporary when the Center was established last fall; no one is sure where the Center will go if and when the site is developed...
...only way to make Berenger's lines work as well as they do, but I'm not convinced it is. Then, too, a good portion of Jean's badinage was lost in the cafe scene because it was never made clear to the audience that his remarks were meant to apply to a conversation at the next table and vice versa...