Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...More important, the flight signaled the advent of the second generation of U.S. spacecraft and spacemen. The two-man Gemini capsule is to the old Mercury capsule what a Thunderbird is to a Model T. Almost all previous U.S. space flights were preplanned to the second, and any deviation meant trouble; in Gemini 4, the astronauts were given considerable flexibility, could and did change their plans and improvise at short notice. For the first time, a U.S. space flight was controlled from Houston's supersophisticated Manned Space Center, which makes Cape Kennedy almost as obsolete as a place once...
After the speech, someone praised Johnson for his delivery. The President looked the man in the eye and said simply: "I really meant...
Nasser was talking sense, for once again guns were firing and people dying along Israel's tense frontier. It remained to be seen if the Arab world would listen-and if Nasser really meant...
...Command. At his headquarters in the Jaragua Hotel, Brazilian General Hugo Panasco Alvim, 64, took command of the 23,000-man OAS military force from U.S. Lieut. General Bruce Palmer. "I'm happy to serve under you, General," said Palmer, and there was no question that Alvim meant to run the show. "You speak Spanish, General?" asked Alvim. "I'm trying^ sir," replied Palmer. "Well, you'd better learn," said Alvim...
...convinced that the most just and effective solution is the return to constitutionality by means of a free election." Moreover, it would be a genuine election. Imbert ruled out himself and members of his junta as candidates, agreed that all previously recognized political parties could enter candidates. This meant that Joaquin Balaguer, 57, who served as President before and after the death of Dictator Rafael Trujillo, could run. as well as Antonio Guzman, the Minister of Agriculture under deposed President Juan Bosch-and even Bosch himself, if he ever chooses to leave his Puerto Rican exile...