Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Being himself" meant an enormous change in style, habits, thought and operation in the White House. It wasn't always comfortable for those in close
...Precedent." Declaring that "the great purpose of the civil rights legislation was to obliterate the effect of a distressing chapter of our history," the opinion concluded that the specific convictions under consideration (cases from Arkansas and South Carolina) "must be vacated and the prosecutions dismissed." The ruling meant that some 3,000 other cases now pending or under appeal in which sit-in demonstrators had acted "peacefully" eventually would be dropped...
...with the U.S., it cannot be quite the impotent force de farce that American officials have scornfully tried to make it out to be. De Gaulle in reality has at last been recognized as a member of the nuclear club. In the past, whenever the U.S. talked nonproliferation, it meant to exclude France from having a separate deterrent; last week nonproliferation suddenly seemed to mean joining with De Gaulle in keeping the bomb from other nations...
...offered tax rebates to companies that increase their trade abroad, given new hope and esprit to the scientific community. Last week Minister for Economic Affairs George Brown-whose ministry was created by the Labor government-signed with representatives of unions and management a historic declaration of intention meant to keep wages and prices stable...
...much? Yes, but it's meant to be. Like Doctor No and From Russia with Love, the two previous Bond bombshells, this picture is a thriller exuberantly travestied. No doubt Goldfinger's formula for box-office gold contains entirely too much brass, but who cares? In scene after scene Director Guy Hamilton has contrived some hilariously horrible sight gags. Item: a gangster Goldfingered for liquidation is taken for a ride to the nearest junkyard, where car and contents are seized by a giant claw, dropped into a mighty mangle and ruthlessly crushed into a small square bale...