Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After big disappointments like these, one begins looking for the little things. Like the dissolves which are out of phase. Or the photographer, Christian Matras, who didn't use a hydraulic tripod so that shots meant to be arty pans come off in irritating shakes...
...death meant the loss of one of the most colorful figures Cambridge has known in this century. Whatmough was unmistakable on the street--a short, frosty-haired, ruddy-faced man, impeccably dressed, always sporting a fresh cornflower in his buttonhole, swinging a walking stick, and traveling with a jaunty briskness. "I am not mad." he once stated categorically, "only eccentric...
...night last week, Teleprinter No. 2 chattered abruptly into life in the newsroom of West Deutsche Rundfunk, a radio station in Cologne. This meant fresh copy from the telegraph office, and the late-shift operator dutifully bestirred himself to see what was coming in. The message he read jolted him down to his half soles. TODAY, LATE IN AFTERNOON, announced Telex No. 2, FIRST MINISTER OF U.S.S.R. KHRUSHCHEV DIED SURPRISINGLY AT 20:19 CENTRAL EUROPEAN TIME OF HEPHOCAPALYTIROSISES. The message was signed TASS/ASAHI BONN-an unusual signature apparently signifying that the information had come from Tass, the Russian news agency...
...chief East Coast base. But its mouth, from Cape Charles on the north to Cape Henry on the south, is 13 miles across, and until a few years ago it did not occur to anyone that it could be bridged. Getting from one side to the other meant a H-hour ferry ride or a roundabout inland route of some 100 miles...
...strikes put a high price on prosperity for Australian businessmen. A three-day strike by 328 pilots in February cost the Qantas airline $675,000 in revenue, and recent strikes at New South Wales steel plants meant a production loss of 36,000 tons of steel worth $2,250,000. What may repair some of the damage is a new awareness among labor leaders that the situation has got out of hand. Last week moderates in the Australian Council of Trade Unions vetoed a suggestion that the 1,000,000-member Transport Workers Union call a massive transport strike...