Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bottom. "?La Bomba es recuperada!" shouted villagers in the fishing town of Palomares five miles away. "They have pulled it up!" In Madrid, one newspaper suggested that the recovery was a Holy Week "miracle." For Palomaresinos, the splash-out meant a return to workaday chores that will always be colored by the phantasmagoria that ensued after a bomb-laden SAC B-52 collided with a jet tanker in their skies last Jan. 17. Ever since, hundreds of airmen, many in Martian masks and protective clothing, had scoured the countryside collecting the remains of the three bombs (two burst open...
...18th century novel of an illegitimate girl forced into a convent life. In the Encyclopedist's book, Suzanne threatens suicide after one mother superior tries to seduce her, a monk tries to rape her and various other unconventional happenings deprive her of both vocation and bodily peace. Diderot meant his book less as an anticlerical attack than an attack on the corrupt society of the 18th century, which frequently forced illegitimates into the church. Recognizing it as such, Rome never placed it on the Index of forbidden reading for Catholics. It is, in fact, today regarded as a French...
Brown Paper Masks. Steinberg drawings are meant to be read, and over the years they have developed into an increasingly sophisticated sign language. The vignettes can be metaphysical or as simple as a curious cat peering into a number 4. Fond of visual puns, he pokes fun at the art of drawing; the artist often grows out of his own pen, winds up as a square, or worse, becomes thoroughly entangled in his own shenanigans. His masks painted on brown wrapping paper are cutting satires. "They are not caricatures," Steinberg insists. "They are the faces, the masks of the middle...
Then Callas' lawyers told her that under Greek law Greek citizens are validly married only if the ceremony is performed in the Greek Orthodox Church-which hers was not. Eureka! By giving up her U.S. citizenship, she would become a Greek and nothing but a Greek. Which meant that she would also become a single woman again...
...contract to dredge five Vietnamese harbors. Taiwan is contracting to ship $2,000,000 worth of two different kinds of gravel, one to be used in building runways and the other a special variety that is used in water-filtration plants. Carrying the goods has meant cargoes for small ships that ply the area, since most large freighters arriving in the far Pacific are already jammed with materiel for Viet...