Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scattering under his white hair. The voice rises from a point near the bottom of his chest where the bands of medals end. "I'm one of those fellas," he says, "who always wanted to be a lawyer and never got to be. In my day bein' a lawyer meant bein' a politician--but I guess I'm pretty much in the thick of things right...
Boldness & Initiative. The Reporter's irreverence is not meant to defame the church-although some bishops think so, and have frequently suggested to Helmsing that he try to tone the paper down. The paper's staff members are all Catholics who feel that laymen have a spiritual responsibility to help make the church an open society. "If the mayor owns a newspaper," explains Editor Robert Hoyt, "the paper winds up making the mayor look good. This does not serve the needs of the community, and it really doesn't serve the needs of the mayor. He needs...
...English-Speaking Union luncheon was accompanied by a fashion show of English styles on sale at I. Magnin & Co., and indeed, Margaret's whole trip-together with her top-secret wardrobe-is meant, among other things, to boost Britain's $10 million-a-year fashion trade with the U.S. For the luncheon, Margaret wore a silver-and-white brocade dress with matching coat, a mink hat and a spray of diamonds. For U.S. women, who are continually perplexed by British royalty's choice of clothes, the New York Times's Charlotte Curtis elucidated...
There are flaws. Richard, for instance, is meant to be a bright and appealing 11-year-old boy, but he sometimes sounds like a greybeard. "That's an ancient philosophical problem," he says to Joey in response to the latter's observation that "the ideal and the real" are hard to reconcile. Joey's mother deserves a larger setting than the author has given her. She is a marvelous, angular, slightly awesome old woman who is held together by the negative and negating force of her character...
...introduced Ruby's apparently sane statements after the shooting ("I hope I killed the son of a bitch"), including one that indicated premeditation ("I first planned to kill him at the Friday night press conference"). All of which Belli was forced to explain as "confabulation," by which he meant that the statements were Ruby's effort to rationalize his alleged blackout when he pulled the trigger. Already skeptical, the jury was singularly unimpressed when Belli displayed yards of inscrutable electroencephalograms purporting to show the organic brain damage that caused Ruby's epileptic seizure...