Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most notorious statement on the racial crisis came in the course of a rambling, angry Oxford interview in February 1956 with British Newsman Russell Warren Howe, who reported Faulkner as saying: "If it came to fighting I'd fight for Mississippi against the United States even if it meant going out into the street and shooting Negroes...
...time of my 1945 statement, some eminent generals were telling the Senate that intercontinental ballistic missiles would be available in a year or two. My statement should be read with this, and the following, in mind: a crash program meant hardware and large costs. Reasonable men in development work do not enter this phase until the central problems are solved. At the time there was no known means of guiding such a missile successfully. There were also large problems on re-entry and on fuels. The fact that I was interested, and was encouraging such research, is illustrated...
...theology: logical positivism. Such philosophers as A. J. Ayer of Oxford and Vienna's Rudolf Carnap, now a professor emeritus at U.C.L.A., argued that the only meaningful propositions were the analytic statements of logic and mathematics, or statements that could be verified by empirical procedures-which meant that the ethereal language of theology was literally meaningless...
...Tokyo's Osaka District Court last week, Judge Taneo Sawai brought the wholly avoidable 30-year feud to an end. Having previously warned Mrs. Murayama that any verdict was bound to go against her, the judge directed both sides to work out an amicable settlement. That meant that the five directors would stay. It also meant an end to Ofuji's meddling. And it probably meant that old Ryohei Murayama could relax at last with his ancestors...
...field run away at the gate, was third from last in the 19-horse field after the first two furlongs, then easily swept into the lead with a furlong-and-a-half to go. The $149,730 victory brought Santa's winnings to $376,423 this year-and meant a present of $140,000 to each of 24 lucky ticket holders in the worldwide Irish Sweepstakes lottery. >Milton Ernstof's Burgoo: the Newport-Bermuda yacht race, over 142 of the world's fastest racing yachts-biggest field in the event's 58-year history. A Class...