Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...safer to stay with something you know something about" was clearly said by the grandson of the man who said, "People can have the Model T in any color, so long as it's black." Only Henry Ford I meant it, while that daredevil Henry Ford II, 44, threw caution aside and took a $1,600 flyer in a Broadway musical, Sugar City, due in March. The auto heir has backed "two or three" other shows, none of which earned him a dime. But, as Granddad used to say, history is more or less bunk...
Consummate Cleavage. The second segment was about a lantern-jawed toad (Jack Klugman), whose secretary was so dumb that she wrote him notes so badly garbling the English language that she said RETURN A MOOSE'S HARNESS when she meant RETURN MRS. HARRIS' CALL. It fuzz not fairy hill airy us. But the third was plotted with Elizabethan comedic geometries. The net end of its contrivances was to place a consummately luscious, half-dressed young wife in the same apartment with two unlikely men, both innocent of adulterous intent, while her savagely jealous husband was closing...
Seven Is Tops. The word "slogan," from the Gaelic sluagh (army) and gairm (a call), originally meant a call to arms-and some of history's most stirring slogans, from "Erin go bragh" to "Remember Pearl Harbor" have been just that. In peacetime, argues Hayakawa, electorates respond more readily to slogans that promise change, since people are rarely satisfied with things as they are. One notable exception was the catch phrase that helped return Britain's Tory Party to power in 1959: "You never had it so good." In general, though, Democrats, like detergent manufacturers, favor slogans that...
...American, the process of crossing over to the sector of the city which advertises itself as the starting point of freedom is fairly easy. For the East Berliners it has meant some 70 deaths since the wall went up in 1961. This fall restrictions on West Berliners travelling to the East have been loosened to allow some strictly controlled family visiting...
...relevant section said: "To achieve maximum benefits from grade separation [underpasses], it will be necessary to match capacities along the length of Memorial Drive." Bernays said this meant that the Drive, presently 40 ft. wide, would have to be widened to 52 ft., the width of roadways for the underpasses...