Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week McDivitt and White learned what Young meant, as they orbit ed through a series of tumultuous receptions that ran the gamut of a hero's homecoming - from brass bands to bronze medals to a free trip to Paris. Both took it with weightless ease...
Such conveniences, of course, are meant primarily as competitive features to attract the people who fly (three-quarters of whom are businessmen) to a specific airline, but they also serve-along with lower fares-to draw the first-time passenger. Eastern Air Lines attributes its remarkable comeback from clouds of red ink to its use of additional passenger services. American now puts out a pamphlet for the nervous, "Tips on Making Your First Air Trip." Since Western began cutting prices three years ago, 5% to 10% of its new passengers have been people who have never flown before. Since...
...Fungus meant mushroom to the Romans. To scientists today, the term connotes a vast vegetable family whose members include some of man's best friends and some of his deadlier enemies. Only in recent decades has science even begun to tell which is which, or even to count their kind; so far, more than 100,000 species have been identified, and there are probably at least 150,000 more awaiting discovery...
...Wagner had passed the point of having to worry about such things. He had said he was stepping down, and he meant it. He seemed hardly to care that Bobby Kennedy, with whom his relationship has been cool, would now try to step in as undisputed leader of the party in New York. Wagner's financial future was assured, if only because he is eligible for a sizable pension as a result of his many years as a public servant. While other Democrats fight it out, first against each other and then against Lindsay, Wagner will be able...
...groups (like the National Council for American Education), the National Education Association appointed a 20-man Educational Policies Commission, including President Conant and Dwight Eisenhower of Columbia, to examine the problem. The commission's conclusion was that "Communists should not be employed as teachers" because membership in the CP meant that they had surrendered their intellectual integrity. In a poll taken among Harvard Faculty members by the Crimson, this point of view was upheld, 218 to 108. Those critical of the commission report felt that a blanket rule should not be applied and that each individual should be judged separately...