Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Time & Again. Behind the threatened strike lay almost five years of inflexible dispute. The railway carriers have long insisted on their right to change the "work rules" for employees. Basically, this meant that management wanted to end the featherbedding practices for which the railway brotherhoods are notorious-such as their insistence upon "firemen" on diesel engines...
...will never have to worry about either girl. Lynda Bird is so smart that she will always be able to make a living for herself. And Luci Baines is so appealing and feminine that there will always be some man around wanting to make a living for her." Well meant as it was, Lyndon's appraisal drew criticism from both girls. Lynda complained he had implied that she would be an old maid: Luci pouted that he had hinted she wasn't too bright...
...before the press conference, the Philadelphia Inquirer splashed an eight-column headline across its front page announcing that Scranton had decided to reject a draft for the nomination. Even State Attorney General Walter Alessandroni, his top political adviser, did not know what Scranton intended to say. Fearing that he meant to issue a Shermanesque statement, Alessandroni admonished: "You can't do that...
...Solar Observatory, the second of its kind, next Tuesday. Leo Goldberg, Higgins Professor of Astronomy, and William Liller, Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Astronomy, are in charge of a Harvard team that has spent over five years building an ultraviolet spectrometer for the OSO. Their instrument, demolished yesterday, was meant to look at light waves from...
...Connor's hero is a gabby old stage Irishman named Daniel Considine. A former professional hoofer, he turns up suddenly one night at the home of his son in an unnamed city that is quite obviously meant to be Boston. Daniel has not seen or thought about his son in some 20 years, but he settles down in an upstairs bedroom to live out what promises to be a long and madding old age. In the eariy hours of the morning, before anybody else is astir, he can be heard shuffling through an old dance routine and quavering...