Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first stage in a Communist takeover, neutralism may be just what the Viet Cong are aiming for. Some Americans believe that the new Red attacks are meant to push the Vietnamese army into carrying out a coup to set up a neutralist regime. Given the petty politicking still being waged by Vietnamese politicians six months after the U.S.-encouraged overthrow of President Ngo Dinh Diem,* such a prospect is not impossible. Premier Nguyen Khanh so far has had the barracks behind him, but at week's end yet another wave of coup rumors rippled through Saigon, then subsided...
...State Department, elaborate contingency plans were taken from the files for the information of the President and his advisers. In universities and newspapers across the country, journalists and professors began to ponder what the death meant. If it was assassination, who would be blamed? The Americans, the Chinese, or a deranged citizen? Who had actually killed him? Even if it had been a heart attack--and after the Premier's recent activity in Eastern Europe this seemed possible--the big question still remained. What would happen...
...last week's statement, Scranton obviously meant what he said. Thus, he projected the image of a man who was not about to connive or deceive in an effort to reach the White House. That was one plus. By staying out of presidential primaries and state convention battles for delegates, Scranton can avoid the political attrition of open warfare. That is another plus. By keeping himself open to a genuine draft and by preaching Republican unity, he appeared as a citizen willing to subordinate his personal desires to the national, and the party, interest. That was the third...
...root cause of controversial decisions is not the Supreme Court," Craig concluded, "but the times in which we live and the critical issues they have engendered. Our Constitution becomes meaningless if it is not a constitution as interpreted by the court. This is what is meant by justice under the law. The Supreme Court has always been dominated by the quest for justice when faced with problems that are more important and more difficult than those that any other court in the history of the world has been asked to face...
...surprised satisfaction of the sitter-although in the case of the famed Madame X, Sargent was so daringly personal in depicting her titian tresses and her fetish for lavendar face powder that the exotic sitter's true name (Judith Gautreau) was concealed from Victorian society. "Sargent" meant "portrait" -work high in esteem during his lifetime, low after his death in 1925 when he became confused with less talented imitators, high again now that most of the portraits have found their way into great museums. Yet before he began concentrating on commissioned portraits, and sometimes during that period, and often...