Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blimey, why carn't you Americans use English proper when yer wants ter be colloquial? Yer don't half muck us up. It took me rahnd abaht five minutes to find out what yer meant wiv "Things did not go half badly" in "Down the Middle" [March 19]. Eiver you says "Things did not half go badly" (viz: They did go badly) or, as in American English "Things didn't go top badly." Honest, I fink you'll find I'm right, 'cos I'm one of them British secretaries in New York...
...anybody except small children and little old ladies, that meant only one thing, and next day papers across the U.S. carried stories reporting Meany's charge of homosexuality at I.C.F.T.U. From I.C.F.T.U. headquarters in Brussels, staff members cabled Meany that they "were deeply shocked." Commented one female staffer, more or less demurely: "Mr. Meany is as wrong as can be. Most of the girls here would tell him the opposite charge would make more sense...
Maybe so, sniffed I.C.F.T.U. Secretary-General Omer Becu, adding: "Per sonally, I've always understood that fairy meant homosexual.* I know that I wouldn't like it at all if anybody called me a fairy...
This year's favorite blanket is full of holes, and meant to be: it is the thermal blanket, a machine-made creation of loose-weave stitches that looks like the afghan Grandma used to crochet...
Practically all the large, living-room TV sets now sold are color. Black-and-white has been relegated to the family's back rooms; fully 70% of the monochrome models sold today are portable sets that list for $150 or less and are meant for bedrooms and dens. Because of the high volume of portables and the trend toward multi-TV families, black-and-white sales are up 12½% this year, are expected to reach 8,000,000 sets. "The beautiful part about color television," says Motorola's Vice President Sylvester Herkes, "is that...