Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week he raised a new crop of scary headlines by implying his support of the idea that Viet Cong supply lines in North Viet Nam could be uncovered through "defoliation of the forests by low-yield atomic weapons." Barry had to make it clear later that what he really meant was that "it could be done, but I don't think it should be done." When asked why he thought Eisenhower had issued his statement, Goldwater said bitterly that a "mysterious clique in the East that nobody seems to know anything about but everyone agrees is in existence...
...sits on steeply tiered seats at ground level; and when the program is about to begin, this entire "people wall" is lifted 53 ft. into the air by two hydraulic rams. They end up inside the lofty IBM egg, watching nine movie screens at once, in a demonstration meant to explain how the human brain is just another computer...
...flew from headquarters in Manhattan to the company's unprofitable and stubbornly independent Convair subsidiary in San Diego, where he boarded up the executive dining room, sold off the fleet of a dozen company limousines, and transferred the executive barber. Says Lewis, now 52: "That convinced them we meant business...
...those in the oil sheikdom of Kuwait, continued Khrushchev angrily, are "lackeys of imperialism. Can you really unite with such people?" The air chilled, interpreters stammered, the Egyptian Ambassador to Moscow, Russian-speaking Murad Ghaleb, explained to Nasser that the translation had been faulty. "No, no," interrupted Nikita. "I meant what I said...
...plants in Britain and 60 more in 15 countries, including one in Buffalo, N.Y. Though its sales rank behind those of the U.S.'s big four (Goodyear, Firestone, U.S. Rubber, Goodrich), Dunlop boasts that it is the most technologically advanced and versatile of the lot. American tires are meant for high-speed driving on well-paved streets, but Dunlop develops different tires for different kinds of roads. Its Hi-Mubroad-tread tires are specially designed to grip wet British roads, and its engineers at Birmingham's sprawling Fort Dunlop plant-known to employees as "The Vatican of Rubber...