Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tights in stretch nylon, Beautiful Bryans in nanny-white lace, and Kayser-Roth promises some misty spring numbers abloom with flowers from tippytoe to waist. The ultimate extension, of course, is the jumpsuit; Capezio has one in white ribbed stretch nylon ($33), Bewitching in sheer black lace ($15). First meant to be worn "under everything from evening dresses to shorts," women soon discovered they were far more effective worn under nothing at all. So, with delight...
...million Americans were at work, and unemployment, which hovered close to 6% a year ago, dipped below 5% for the first time since 1960. Most impressive of all, the nation's per capita income from wages, dividends and pensions jumped 6% to $2,264, a rise that meant that the average family of four had an income of about $9,000, or $536 more than it did twelve months...
...added that HGSP had, at the present time, no intention of including either Broadway productions or chamber music in its repertoire. "Our move," he said, "is meant in no way to cramp the style of Grant-in-Aid, the Hasty Pudding Show, of the House musicals...
Founded in 1920 as a union of kibbutzim laborers, Histadrut rapidly tentacled into organizing industrial workers, building factories and financing housing developments. From the start it was meant to be far more than a labor organization: it was an association of Jews formed to create the State of Israel and provide it with a viable economy. Former Prime Minister David Ben Gurion, himself Histadrut secretary general from 1921 to 1935, described it as an "alliance of pioneers of a homeland, founders of a state, creators of a nation, builders of an economy, disseminators of a culture...
...worked harder than he played, and the "bent for the bizarre" he noted in himself as early as age nine was soon hammered into a credo. "I am not here," he proclaimed, "to reflect the surface (this can be done by a photographic plate), but must penetrate inside." That meant to Klee burrowing into the psyche and borrowing the squiggly insights of children and madmen, not to mention invoking his own unconscious, as in one of his diary's bursts of poetry: "Open thyself, thou gate in the depths . . . / Forth you beautiful pictures, wild beasts, / Spring forth from...