Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that thousands on each slave ship would die like dogs of diseases before reaching their destination in Brazil, Guiana, West Indies, or the American South. This, I'm sad to say, is little different in my reckoning from the Germans' participation in the Nazi regime, knowing that such participation meant death for millions of Jews and other people...
This real basis of Anna's wheeling and dealing breeds a narcissistic injunction: let nothing escape; take what you can, even if you do a little wrong. Never let an opportunity go by. Life is so short, and death inevitable. And because this is meant especially sexually, and because desire is unwilling to check itself with the thought of doing wrong, Anna's intuitive philosophy of carpe diem, her unabashed "femininity," can drive any male to distraction...
...motor nearly this big had ever been fired before, but the fuel burned so evenly, and its outside layers were such a serviceable insulator, that all parts of the steel casing remained at air temperature. The nozzle was meant to erode slightly as the corrosive exhaust gases raced out at supersonic speed. But after its throat cooled, the big nozzle looked almost new; about half an inch had been tooled smoothly away as if by a delicate grinding machine. If X rays show no internal damage, the nozzle can be used again...
...Tomasello's own comments, although probably sincerely meant, appeared suspect, because he seemed to be using drugs as an excuse to attack the University. Without ever naming Harvard or M.I.T., he asked that "instead of taking in these students who are anti-the-country and anti-the-leadership, these tax-free institutions should screen whom they let in." And then, in a reference to recent marches in protest of U.S. Vietnam policy, he urged, "Let's get some patriotism at these institutions...
...answer, in a sworn affidavit, was a flat no-but that was back on Dec. 16, 1963, when Jenkins was a top White House aide. Last week Jenkins answered again-and this time his no was a lot less than flat. He had meant on that other occasion that he had not known "of the specifics for the purchase of advertising." But "I did know Mr. Reynolds planned to purchase advertising time, and I have never asserted the contrary...