Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Father Du Bay never meant to play the Luther game to the point of leaving the church, and Mclntyre responded by using a bishop's normal disciplinary powers. The chancery stripped Father Du Bay of his administrative duties and silenced...
With that declaration of belief and practical politics-meant to appeal to moderates both within and without the Republican Party-Pennsylvania's Governor William Warren Scranton, 46, threw himself headlong into the G.O.P. contest for this year's presidential nomination. In so doing, he injected a rush of excitement into what was becoming a dreary procession toward the certain selection of Conservative Barry Goldwater...
...people. For many years each political party has given major consideration to a civil rights plank in its platform. Were these pledges so much campaign stuff, or did we mean it? Were these promises on civil rights but idle words for vote-getting purposes, or were they a covenant meant to be kept? If all this was mere pretense, let us confess the sin of hypocrisy now and vow not to delude the people again...
North v. South. By sheer weight of numbers, the underdeveloped nations got their way in the endless committee meetings. But the resolutions meant little without the backing of the industrial nations that carry on 80% of the world's trade. Working against the June 15 adjournment deadline, the conference's president, Egypt's Deputy Premier Abdel Moneim El-kaissouni, and secretary general, Argentine Economist Raul Prebisch, used their skills as suave fixers ,to salvage some things. The industrial nations' delegates made several soft compromises. By supporting proposals to reconvene the trade meeting every three years...
...lzel had commissioned. Perhaps least appealing of all, he was a self-righteous moralist who could denounce his brother Johann's wife as "an infamous strumpet" though he himself, says Thayer primly, "did not always escape the common penalties of transgressing the laws of strict purity." What Thayer meant, as he later explained in correspondence, was that Beethoven had contracted syphilis, probably in the course of certain "conquests" during his early years in Vienna, and that his deafness may have resulted from...