Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over their reception after the fuss kicked up by John's crack that the Beatles were bigger than Jesus. "We've got to go to America to get beaten up," moaned George Harrison as they left London. Now John was trying to smooth things over. "I never meant it as a lousy irreligious thing. I'm sorry," he continued contritely. "He really believes in Christianity," insisted George...
...result of this attitude, dollar losses among many blue chips have been staggering. G.M., already hit by Ralph Nader and the auto safety hearings, went from a high of 113¾ last October to a 1966 low of 78? last week; for 1,310,000 shareholders, this meant a total loss of $8.6 billion in the value of their investment. In roughly the same period, the world's most widely held stock, A. T. & T. (which has also had its troubles because of FCC rate investigations), went from 68? to 53, representing an $8 billion loss to 2,840,500 shareholders?...
...Indians, Lake Tahoe meant "Big Water," a laconic understatement even for an Indian. Twenty-two miles long, twelve miles wide and one-third of a mile deep, Tahoe is the third largest alpine lake in the world (after the Peruvian-Bolivian Titicaca and Oregon's Crater Lake). Poured out over California, it would submerge the entire state in 14½ in. of water. Withal, Tahoe is a volcanic and glacial marvel, ringed for one-third of the year by snow-dazzling mountain tops. To Mark Twain, Tahoe was a "noble sheet of blue water." In the past decade...
...week dig that has just ended, three big exploratory holes were carved in the dry loam to a depth of about 7 ft. Out of them came "Arthurian matter" called "minor jackpots" by the diggers, one of whom headily claimed to have found a carved letter "A." Presumably that meant something different in A.D. 500 than it did in Nathaniel Hawthorne's time...
...rebuff by the 122,000-member association would have meant serious trouble in the Senate for the jury provision of the Civil Rights Bill of 1966, which passed in House yesterday...