Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...life tough for landlocked, black-ruled Zambia to the north, which relies on Rhodesian rails to carry its copper to market, Wilson raised the prospects of a joint U.S.-British Berlin-style airlift. That was faintly ludicrous, since expensive, airborne copper could hardly compete for long, but it was meant to demonstrate that Britain was not about to be bullied by threats of Rhodesian countermoves...
...countered smartly with a plan for a "joint" commission (three Rhodesians and two Britons) to decide only if the principles of the 1961 Constitution, with some adjustments, could be adapted to become the basis of Rhodesian independence. To Wilson, it was as unexpected as it was downright "ingenious." It meant that Wilson and Smith could continue talking without either side backing down on principle...
...Garcia-Godoy to fire Rivera Caminero and the rest of the service chiefs for their so-called "genocide" early in the civil war. At one point, Garcia-Godoy came out of a four-hour Cabinet meeting ready to bow to the rebels and cashier the generals-which would have meant an almost certain bloodbath...
Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria was a wilderness of apple trees, fountains, and rearing white chicken-wire horses meant to conjure up the Normandy resort "Deauville, Ville du Cheval." It was time for the biggest party of October in New York, the April in Paris Ball. The 1,400 jewel-hung society folks from all over the U.S. and nearly 100 from Paris jammed into the Waldorf's Grand Ballroom and adjoining suites for a nine-hour blast for four French and American charities. "A gay and brilliant assemblage," said the society reporters next morning. It was indeed...
...salvation, wanted put down in writing in Holy Writ." Although foiled by decree-writers on that change, Paul nonetheless persuaded them to make another change that pleased literalists. After a reference to the Gospels, the text now adds: ". . . whose historicity the church constantly affirms." The problem: what precisely is meant by historicity...