Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strong central government, and plug for a confederation of almost independent states. Taking him at his word, Northern politicians put together a proposal that envisaged a loose league tied together only by common currency, post office and diplomatic service. But Gowon soon realized that that would have meant splitting the army-a notion that he could not countenance...
...neighbors would ask me after I returned from a summer of teaching there. I was always at a loss for a good answer, knowing that they knew about the ghetto only through the newspapers or perhaps Life magazine. To most of them, living in an all-white suburb, Watts meant violence, a pocket of black men seething with discontent, waiting for another incident to spark a week of looting and burning. Behind the curiosity of my neghbors was the tacit question, "Were they...
...daylight glow of common fluorescent tubes. Such an elemental system becomes possible (ironic) from the context of the previous work." Such an elemental system is also possible in most light fixtures. Italo Scanga, on the other hand, is interested in "polite art." His sculptures are groupings of identical cylinders meant to be hung between the window-top and the ceiling. "Ton hang a work of art so high," he says, "is to make a polite gesture to the viewer who should not be forced to look...
...moment's inspection later indicated that it actually meant baby fat, but in girl-picking as in horse racing, systems are always infallible and human judgement the ever-present bugaboo...
...apartment in Hawaii. By last week, though, Copley was convinced that Advertiser Publisher Thurston Twigg-Smith, 45, and Editor George Chaplin, 52, who between them owned about 60% of the paper's stock, were not about to sell out. To them, the quick, large profit offered by Copley meant far less than the continuing pleasure of putting out a successful paper...