Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inspired, should be ultimately thwarted, the present mood could suddenly change, and all the old bitterness and violence could come back redoubled by a new sense of failure. If whites in industry, in labor unions, in government, indeed everywhere, decided that the relative calm in the ghetto meant that they could relax rather than press ahead with fresh help, welcoming the blacks into all parts of American society, then the result could be racial chaos far worse than any the U.S. has yet known...
Again Johnson responded expansively, and this time included a note of compassion for his successor. "My father told me one time, when I was a little boy," Johnson remembered, "that I'd never know what it meant to be a father until I was a father. And one never knows what it is to be a President until you are a President." He continued: "We are very proud to stand behind you and to support you in your earnest quest for peace in the world and for prosperity at home. No man occupied the place that you occupy...
...announced her retirement two times in the last two years, and each time she has obviously meant it. But somehow it never lasted very long. This time the bait is a play written by her late husband, and a part she claims was modeled after her mother. How could Helen Hayes say no? So she will be back on Broadway Oct. 18, playing the "small but juicy" part of Mrs. Grant in the revival of the 1928 comedy The Front Page. Miss Hayes said that her husband, Charles MacArthur (who collaborated with Ben Hecht on the script), created Mrs. Grant...
Those added years had startling geological implications. They meant that the moon's maria, or seas, were not created by relatively recent-and possibly continuing-volcanic activity. Instead, the maria had probably survived largely intact since early in the moon's life. Because the relatively uncratered maria are probably the last major features to have been formed on the lunar surface, the moon's appearance has remained essentially unchanged for billions of years. "It's something, isn't it?" Urey reflected last week. "Rocks sticking up above the surface . . . perhaps they haven't changed...
...book develops a subplot involving West's compulsion to murder Negro women (his mother, who deserted him, was a very dark-skinned Sicilian). It is here that the dreary suspicion of allegory crosses the reader's mind. It may not be true that West is meant to stand for corrupt America, and the Negro women for America's blacks, but the book has been so mishandled by this point that no reader can be sure...