Word: meant
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...record total. In part, the sudden increase reflects the coming to maturity of a postwar baby crop, but much of it is due to one of Nikita Khrushchev's colossal mistakes. In 1958 he decreed that high school students must work two days a week in factories, which meant adding an eleventh year to the curriculum. Factory managers complained that the students were a liability not an asset. So two years ago, Russia scrapped the system and went back to the old ten-year plan-with the result that this spring not one but two grades reached graduation...
Paris has plenty of doctors-during daylight hours. From 8 in the evening until 8 the next morning, the doctors insist on their privacy; medical help becomes harder to find than a polite cab driver. To Parisians the scarcity has sometimes meant long hours of pain, or even death...
...Balaguer made it clear that he meant business, and that his country would make it on its own hook, not on U.S. aid. "We cannot live on alms," said Balaguer, "and be proud...
...hyena," he cried. "He is a frightened man with a little heart." Jomo proved to be equally adept at badinage. At a rally in Nairobi, he warned that the dissidents were prepared to buy votes. "If these people offer money," he said, "you must know it is foreign money meant to undermine the sovereignty of our country. Beware of this political prostitution. Take the money-but vote for KANU...
...surprised, however, to hear Kilty make one error in the celebrated pacan to sherris-sack. He pronounced the word forgetive with a hard g and the accent on the second syllable, as though it meant "forgetful;" a cognate of forge, it means "inventive" and should of course have a soft g and first-syllable accent...