Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cold-hearted" was an overly strong and inexact word. By it I meant just what your letter implies, that you provide "an intellectual framework...to clarify action." I also believe and meant to suggest, that it is from this "framework," not from a direct empathy with specific human problems, that your passions chiefly flow. I did not intend to express disapproval of your approach, which is after all the approach of men as dissimilar and intelligent as Walter Lippman and Vladimir Lenin...
...chief of the 48-man Bavarian branch of the C.D.U., which won a thumping majority of 55% in Bavaria, and he would certainly be entitled to sit in the Cabinet-except for the fact that Mende won't have him. Flying into Bonn to proclaim that he meant "to represent Bavarian interests," Strauss let it be known that his price for sitting out this administration might be Mende's head-and possibly the head of Foreign Minister Gerhard Schr...
After nine years at Purdue University in Lafayette, Ind., Coach Jack Mollenkopf has every right to be a pessimist. Purdue got its nickname ("the Boilermakers") from opponents who meant it as a term of derision. It copied its school colors from Princeton's. It has been playing in the Big Ten ever since the ten were still seven, but in all those 70 years it has never once been to the Rose Bowl, and the last time it won an undisputed conference championship was in 1929. For that matter, Purdue has rarely even been the best team...
...game ducks have long been more parched than people. For five years the great prairies of the central U.S. and Canada have had subnormal rainfall-not bad enough to bother humans but plenty bad for ducks. Thousands of breeding marshes and potholes turned to mud, then dust. That meant that for every 100 ducks that flew north to breed in the spring, only 80 came back through U.S. flyways in the fall. Hatchings were a little better this year but still far below normal times when 170 ducks return south for every 100 that migrate to breeding grounds...
...talk ("Bust me wide open if I didn't bulge into the creek in the twinkling of a bedpost, I was so thunderin' savagerous"). It spilled over in the invincible optimism with which new towns called themselves cities, hotel was any flea-bitten tavern, and opera house meant any public hall, with or without a roof...