Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus far, the use of PR has meant there is no dominant force on either the school committee or the council. The independents hold a 5-4 majority on the council, and because Mayor Edward A. Crane sits on the school committee, CCA-endorsed candidates hold a 4-3 majority...
...protestors maintain, the demonstrations are meant to be more than an outlet for individual indignation, they are falling. Instead of mobilizing popular support-against U.S. policy and causing it to change, they are only stimulating a McCarthy-like witch hunt and alienating the vast majority of the American people...
...Bernard Shaw, he produced the book for the musical masterpiece My Fair Lady With the late T. H. White to guide his pen, he wrote the passable Camelot. His unseen ally this time is John L. Balderston, who wrote Berkeley Square in 1929, and Balderston was apparently not meant for the ages...
Aldous Huxley meant his study of an historical incident to be both an abstraction of the witch-trial mentality and a critique of the McCarthy hearings. Whiting thankfully preserves the abstract quality even when tempted by the theatrical. On the night before his death, Huxley's Grandier instantly calms his fear when his older colleague assures him that "God is here." The playwright, however, foregoes the sudden conversion and instead has Grandier change slowly through the last...
Although Author Heckstall-Smith halfheartedly twists a few facts, there is never any doubt about who his consort is meant to be. After all, how many royal consorts are there who are handsome and charming, notoriously impatient with stuffy protocol, and married to serious-minded queens who love horses and receive government documents in red dispatch boxes? If there was any doubt, the publishers archly turned out the book with two jackets, the outer showing the consort with his queen in full British-style ceremonial robes, the inner replacing the queen with a lush brown maiden...