Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...test firing of a Saturn booster. "I never dreamed it would be that loud," she said, "It was fantastic. If you leaned up against this wall you just could feel it was quivering." Before leaving she recalled girlhood days in Alabama: "Until I was about 20, summertime always meant Alabama to me. With Aunt Effie we would board the train in Marshall and ride to the part of the world that meant watermelon cuttings, picnics at the creek, and a lot of company every Sunday. I am so glad, I am so glad I could come down and visit with...
...Plain of Jars, usually trying not to hit each other but still taking a daily toll of human life. Recently, gunfire erupted one night in the backwater capital of Vientiane (two stop lights, one sidewalk). It was an eclipse of the moon, and to the natives that meant but one thing: a frog, presumably inhabited by an evil spirit, was swallowing the moon. The gunfire broke out when everyone, following tradition, began shooting at the moon to frighten away Mr. Frog...
Because of this speculative emphasis, In the Jungle of Cities is not a dated period piece. The Theatre Company of Boston expertly stages the play as it was meant to be produced in the twenties, and the result is contemporary drama as entertaining and puzzling as Genet, Ionesco, or latter-day Brecht...
...lead article in the new publication prints 21 letters from some authors, baseball players, and rightwing congressmen, all of whom are angry with Henry Luce and the rewrite men of Time. Presumably, the letters are meant to present "facts" about Time magazine. And if, as a good student, one believes that all facts should be underlined, here are some which deserve penciling...
...help the G.O.P.' if we believed that the result meant that Lodge would be the Republican presidential nominee," said the Chicago Tribune. "But we don't." The Baltimore Sun allowed that "Mr. Lodge is a good man" but added that his victory was only a "local phenomenon." In New Hampshire, the Manchester Union Leader's terrible-tempered Publisher William Loeb, who had backed Candidate Barry Goldwater, described the write-in vote for Lodge as "temporary political insanity...