Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fingered by "Witness" Castro were the editor of the newspaper Revolucion and the vice minister of the armed forces. The editor lost his job, and the vice minister obediently made a public breast-beating confession of his errors. To Castrologists, all this meant that Castro was making sure that the old-guard Communists knew who was boss...
Baseball was truly the national pastime when eleven-year-old John Drebinger saw his first big-league game. In that half-forgotten summer of 1902, baseball meant two-bit bleacher seats in the sun and no night games. There was no TV either, to tempt pitchers and managers into time-wasting histrionics. The players were public heroes, and fan's wore their hearts on their sleeves...
Showers & Violins. Ninety years old this week, this uniquely cultural Y is known officially as the Young Men's & Young Women's Hebrew Association. The founders, leading Jewish philanthropists of the 1870s, aimed at "the cultural and intellectual advancement of Jewish young men." At first that meant luring immigrant kids off the streets with hot showers and 50 violin lessons. Later it meant developing the New York Pro Musica ensemble, harboring dancers from Martha Graham to Jose Limon, and attracting some of the most literate audiences in the U.S. While salvaging such once-poor Jewish boys as Bernard...
...Looking like "a painting by someone who had tried to capture the essence of heroism," he is nevertheless subject to strange tics and seizures, inexplicable quirks of behavior; a steely disciplinarian, indifferent to the value of individual lives, he displays exemplary courage and single-minded patriotism. Clearly Tanz is meant to be a mythic, archetypal figure--Herr Kirst even goes so far as to suggest that he is "the personification of war"--but he also seems horribly real. Tanz is the sort of man that made Germany's nightmare, and readers are likely to notice him in theirs
...postponement meant an extra day's rest for Crimson starter Paul Del Rossi, who pitched against Richmond Friday, and for a Harvard team that played five games last week...