Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lest the North Vietnamese, and by indirection the Red Chinese, misread the U.S. stance, the President ordered the U.S. fleet to pursue and destroy any attacking vessel. "Pursuit," in this case, meant that an enemy could be chased to wherever it might flee, even into the sanctuary of its own territorial waters. To back up the public denunciation of North Viet Nam's attack, moreover, the State Department issued a fiery protest to the Hanoi government...
...Asia. "To any who may be tempted to support or to widen the present aggression, I say this: There is no threat to any peaceful power from the United States of America. But there can be no peace by aggression and no immunity from reply. That is what is meant by the actions that we took." To help spread that word abroad, Johnson asked Henry Cabot Lodge, former Ambassador to Saigon, to present the U.S. case in allied capitals...
Erhard seemed willing enough to meet Khrushchev, assured the guest that the agenda would be "unrestricted" -which meant that Nikita could talk all he wanted to about the evils of NATO membership, and Erhard would be able to raise at will the question of German reunification. Though Khrushchev still has to say "da" before a formal invitation from Bonn is forthcoming. But there was no question that both leaders seemed to feel that they had nothing to lose by such a meeting -and possibly something to gain...
Building such machines meant that the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena had to build an entirely new and difficult technology. But last week's performance of Ranger VII was an intricate exercise in perfection. The Atlas booster took off from Cape Kennedy as routinely as a commuter leaving for the railroad station. After the Atlas dropped off, the Agena second stage put Ranger VII in a parking orbit, and twenty-two minutes later, the Agena fired again, giving the spacecraft the correct speed and direction to take it to a rendezvous with the moon...
...shall I say, to adopt it suddenly and without warning near the end of the play when the speech of the Dioscuroi and one reference to prayer are played for laughs. They probably should be, to a certain extent, but the extent bothers me, and I doubt they meant to provoke as much mirth as they...