Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though restrained and formal during the taped WHRB interview, McNamara was relaxed and engaging in conversation afterward. His responses were concise, tightly reasoned point-by-point capsule analyses. But his passion for exhausting the possibility of every idea sometimes carried his logic further than he meant to go on the record. And at these points, one of his aides would remind the secretary that if he let the remark stand he would be quoted in such a way on this or that issue; and the secretary would regretfully take it off the record. After one of these reminders, McNamara grinned...
Ansara emphasized that SDS's invitation was meant seriously, even though other SDS members present at the press conference doubted that McNamara would accept...
Nixon, campaigning in New England, kept his cool. He remarked that the President had been guilty of a "shocking display of temper" and that his attack had "broken the bipartisan line on Viet Nam policy." Bipartisanship, he went on, meant joint participation and responsibility, "not abject approval of whatever policy the President may announce...
...fought in the last war" is followed by a summation of Lyndon Johnson in his Viet Nam visit: "Shortly after he arrived, he left." An African head of state is asked by an English interviewer about his country's firm resistance to Red Chinese infiltration. "If God had meant there to be yellow men," the chief explains, "he would have made them like you and me." Hendra and Ullett, both 25, arrived at their joint lunacy three years ago when they went to work in a London nightclub owned by a Lebanese gangster. Moving...
...such criticism; they admit that no one book could ever contain the complete history of a global war involving 56 nations. Their aim instead is to present in words and pictures the essential history of the greatest war and try to re-create a feeling of what it meant to the people who were caught up in it. By and large, they have succeeded. Although the text by New York Times Columnist C. L. Sulzberger is sometimes stiff and distant, the book contains engrossing eyewitness accounts from such diverse types as a Japanese kamikaze pilot, a Berlin housewife, an Englishman...