Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crucial cloture vote began, Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and Minority Leader Everett Dirksen were fairly confident that they had the required two-thirds majority. But a shred of doubt remained right up to the end. "It's a case of depending on the Republican side," said Mansfield. That meant Ev Dirksen, and Dirksen had done his job of persuasion well. "This involves more than you," he told wavering colleagues. "It's the party. Don't drop...
...said, "on that hand he held up one finger; his hand showed only one heart. Maybe this holds true for other hands." Checking the records of past hands against notes that they had made during the observations, the trio found the pattern. One finger meant a singleton heart. Two fingers together meant two hearts; two spread in a V shape meant five. Three fingers clenched meant three hearts; three fingers spread apart indicated six. Four fingers together meant four. A holding of seven hearts or more could be indicated simply in the bidding. Holding the cards in the right hand...
...home to government by consent, the U.S. cannot quite visualize international leadership without consent. During the Age of Reason, when humanity at large was deemed capable of holding a collective view, the Declaration of Independence pledged a "decent respect to the opinions of mankind." At the time, this meant not merely listening but telling-giving the world a forthright, stirring statement of the American purpose...
...meant to be more, even, than a state visit. Officially, it was the formal return of the visit by Germany's late President Theodor Heuss to Buckingham Palace in 1958. The glacial response he got then and the deep-rooted hostility many Britons still harbor toward their wartime enemies delayed the return engagement seven years, until German protocol officials had privately given up hope. Finally, last spring the Conservative government decided to find out whether the past was indeed past, and last fall incoming Prime Minister Harold Wilson concurred. As Chancellor Ludwig Erhard put it, the royal visit...
Cabled the New York Herald Tribune's Barnard Collier: "The U.S. action was meant to thwart internationally trained Communists who are fighting alongside the leftist rebels. Its effect has been to give the Communist world a rallying cry, to create dozens of Dominican Communist martyrs and to turn an increasing number of rebels against the U.S." Said New York Timesman Tad Szulc: "The U.S. finds itself identified with a military junta that is widely hated, and it may be standing on the threshold of a violent showdown with the highly popular rebel movement...