Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Airily remarking that he was "happy to see you all again," Maurice Couve de Murville presented a ten-point proposal for changing the "style" of the Common Market's Executive Commission in Brussels. He really meant the style of its president, Walter Hallstein, who conducts himself, in the opinion of Charles de Gaulle, too much like a head of state. De Gaulle has never quite got over the fact that, as President Kennedy's guest in 1962, Hallstein stayed at Blair House as any chief of state might. And when Hallstein toured India in 1963, le grand Charles...
Ordaz hoped that it meant the beginning of a new era in Mexican foreign relations. After 55 years of a generally prosperous "continuing revolution," Mexico has become the stablest major state in Latin America and an outspoken independent in international affairs. But it has remained largely unconcerned about the five Central American republics south of its border...
...word novena comes from the Latin word for nine, and originally meant a nine-day cycle of Masses said for the repose of a dead person's soul. Gradually it evolved into a prayer service in which people asked a favorite saint to plead their cause in heaven. In modern times, many novenas became perpetual-conducted weekly in churches throughout the year. The most popular were dedicated to the Virgin Mary under a variety of names such as Our Lady of Perpetual Help or Our Sorrowful Mother...
...shot of growth hormone in 1962 with the Kefauver-Harris law, which made the agency responsible for the efficacy as well as the safety of new drugs. But growth (from 800 employees and a $5,000,000 budget in 1955 to 4,400 and $53 million today) also meant growing pains. FDA was ill organized and ill housed-some of its most vital scientific work had to be done in a made-over garage. Worse, many of its difficulties were homemade...
...Even the University Administration, despite its efforts to recruit poor and minority-group students, must admit that Harvard is still predominantly a school for the rich and the near-rich.) The Old Snobbery consisted of a set of attitudes still often associated with the rich: political conservatism, which then meant violent and derisive opposition to Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, and a scorn for and lack of interest in the problems of members of minority groups and, in general, the less fortunate people in our society...