Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since Illinois' paper ballots will be about the size of a bed sheet, the situation strongly favors straight-ticket voting, and it is conceivable that the winning party will send to Springfield its entire slate of candidates. Percy wanted the Republican slate to be a clean one -which meant, at the very least, purging the West Side Blocmen. And at a state G.O.P. convention in June, he all but read the undesirables out of the party. Rarely have such howls been heard. "You may be dynamic, Mr. Percy," cried one purgee, "but you'd better learn...
...right and the authority to dictate the composition of state legislatures." Dirksen called on his colleagues to back the "Dirksen breather"-a rider attached to the $3.3 billion foreign aid bill that would delay states' compliance with the court ruling for two years. In the interim, Dirksen meant to promote a constitutional amendment permanently preventing federal courts from ruling on state legislative apportionment...
...viewing nature, nature's handmaid, art, makes mighty things from small beginning grow," wrote Dryden. In the Manhattan cabaret called Second City, Satirist Severn Darden, posing as a mad Germanic art professor, explains in effect what the poet meant...
...years Wilson was a research chemist, the chairman of the board of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, a member of the Atomic Energy Commission, chairman of the American Oil Co. Occupational pigeonholers marked him down as an applied scientist - a term that in Wilson's case meant a complete man using his varied talents completely...
Golden Age. For Gunther, who arrived there in 1930, it also meant some pretty fast journalistic company. Such famed Vienna hands and visiting correspondents as Vincent Sheean, William L. Shirer, the New York Evening Post's roving Dorothy Thompson and its resident Balkanologist M. W. ("Mike") Fodor, I.N.S.'s H. R. Knickerbocker, the Chicago Daily News's Negley Farson-and many other now-legendary figures-were Gunther's cablehead competitors and constant café companions. Together, they zestfully created the profession and the mystique of the U.S. foreign correspondent, and built the by-lined reputations that...