Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Black power is a ringing slogan in the summer of 1966-one that may well see all the counsel of well-meant moderation choked in Mississippi dust...
There has been much conjecture as to why Reischauer left his post after such a successful term, but when asked bluntly he replies in kind: "The time had come to leave." Elaborating, Reischauer explains that what he had meant to do had been accomplished, and he is convinced he mght be able to make a greater contribution in academics than in diplomacy. "Five and a half years is a long, intense, tiring period, and I thought my intellect needed some refreshing," he says...
...given a fighting chance to unseat the Christian Democratic state government in the July 10 elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, where nearly a third of West Germany's voters live. "These things have to be said," Barzel maintained last week. "My feet are firmly planted." What he meant is that they have to be said by a Christian Democrat if the party is to continue to lead West Germany. And if Rainer Barzel is to have the chance he wants at Germany's top job any time soon...
...furor hit Premier Eisaku Sato, whose popularity keeps dropping as prices keep rising, where it hurt most. Worried about the latest opinion polls, which showed that only 28.8% of the Japanese public supports him, Sato warned his party leaders to "proceed slowly" on the bill-which in his language meant drop it. Economic Planner Aiichiro Fujiyama chimed in to say that it should be "studied further"-which in his language meant drop it immediately. The bill was quietly dropped...
Baby Jane Holzer, a sometime mod el, played at being Ariel in Simonet-ta's backless, almost frontless halter-top dress of pink chiffon, but stubbornly sat out all the dancing "to promote my new image," whatever that meant. Obviously there was a genuine chance that in a moment of abandon her dress might abandon her. Maybe the new Baby Jane just doesn't do that sort of thing any more. Not at the Plaza, anyway...