Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Massachusetts should be called upon to double its number of draftees, Feeney said that married men between the ages of 19 and 25 would probably be called to service with in two months. He said that president Kennedy's 1963 declaration deferring married men merely meant that "we won't take a man with a wife until the supply of single men is exhausted...
...accounts, does Lyndon Johnson, the man whom Humphrey promised to love, honor and obey when he took on the vice-presidency. Wherever Johnson cannot be, Humphrey is. Last week that meant a two-day, five-speech swing around the Western U.S. Landing in San Diego, he plunged into a sea of greeting hands. "How are you, young lady?" he bubblingly inquired of a woman who must have been...
...succeed in Mississippi politics since Reconstruction has meant being a segregationist, and James P. Coleman succeeded. "Those who propose to mix the races in our public schools might as well try to dip the Atlantic dry with a teaspoon," he said as Governor in 1956, two years after the Supreme Court school integration ruling. And, as he had promised he would, he signed laws aimed at thwarting that decision...
...final funeral services in Illinois this week, millions around the world mourned him, and eulogies poured out by the score. Perhaps he wrote his own epitaph when, on the evening of Nov. 3, 1952, before the presidential ballots had been cast, he summed up: "I have said what I meant and meant what I said. I have not done as well as I should like to have done, but I have done my best, frankly and forthrightly; no man can do more, and you are entitled to no less...
None of the political problems, however, could obscure the very real triumph that the day was meant to observe. The two-lane Mont Blanc tunnel, air-conditioned and equipped with ultramodern radar traffic control, will shorten the road between Paris and Rome by 125 miles-even more when the long winter snows close the Alpine passes. It is expected to be used by at least 1.2 million vehicles a year, each of which will pay tolls ranging from $3.25 (for a small European car) to $20 (for a bus). Just before its Italian entrance, a proud new road sign told...