Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been relatively free of racial strife. But it has areas that simmer in much the same juices as Watts or Harlem. Later, after a White House press aide tried to cover up by insisting that L.B.J. had not intended to single out the capital, Johnson told reporters: "I meant just what I said-that we ought to try to face up to these problems that we have before we have to suffer more serious problems...
...Volkswagen, which sells 68.2 cars to MG's one in the U.S., was preferred by three out of five people, a ratio that the less known MG found flattering.) Volkswagen was so delighted by the ad that its advertising manager called up MG to say thanks, and he meant...
Malthusian Menace. But more improvement in food production must be matched by population control if India is ever to feed herself. Nehru's first Five-Year Plan was meant to make the nation self-sufficient agriculturally, but without a firm program of family planning, it fell sadly short of the mark. Shastri, too, has failed to face up to the Malthusian menace of India's birth rate. Every year the country's crop of new babies exceeds the population of New York City. When pressed about birth control, Shastri smiles: "I hesitate to give advice on this...
...France, Malraux said, "It's true that our social systems are different. It is also true that both of us have had to battle against a powerful aggressor who, weapons in hand, came to fight in a place where he shouldn't have been." Malraux may have meant Japan's invasion of China, but Peking was free to interpret his words as meaning the U.S. in Korea...
...good feeling to have five syndicates approach me and offer the kind of money I never thought was in journalism 15 years ago," he said. "But I had a feeling of satisfaction beyond what it meant to my personal pocketbook. It meant that Negroes, like white Americans, can leave Government and face economic opportunity commensurate with what they know and are prepared to deliver. This has not always been so. The Negro who got a good job in Government was prepared to make it his home. But my old profession came through beautifully, and I hope that this indicates...