Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...announcement came as a shock to reporters. "Does that include being drafted?" asked a newsman. "Including being drafted," said Scranton. And to prove that he meant to be as unshakable as William Tecumseh Sherman ("If nominated, I will not accept; if elected, I will not serve"), Scranton added, "I am not going to run for Congress this year-or ever. I am not going to run for the U.S. Senate in 1968-or ever. I am not going to run for the presidency in 1968-or ever...
...Wait a minute, now wait a minute," he will snarl after almost every statement. Then he bores in, sometimes filibustering to extended lack of effect, but sometimes digging out news that the briefing officer meant to pass over...
...stay entirely silent on an issue that is on everyone's mind. At last year's Governors Conference all members present endorsed President Johnson's conduct of the war, with the exceptions of Romney of Michigan (who later adhered to the endorsing resolution when he learned what it meant) and Hatfield of Oregon...
...suggested that a person should be declared dead when a flat EEG pattern shows that his brain has definitely and irrevocably ceased to function. Dr. Crafoord was concerned about truly hopeless cases, but the kin of patients being kept alive with mechanical aids jumped to the conclusion that he meant the devices should be shut off, the patients declared dead, and their organs used for transplants...
...auto industry's troubles on the safety squabble ("I have no other way to explain this abrupt drop"), Ford said that sales had fallen off by about 5% during April, and were down about 15% during the first ten days of May. This, said Ford, projecting his figures, meant that the company would fall considerably short in 1966 of the alltime-high marks in 1965 of $11.5 billion in sales and $703 million in earnings...