Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Director Joel Schwartz did what he could with the script, and all things considered, he did a lot. Judged professionally, House Afire would rate low grade B, but the production is meant to entertain, and it does so beautifully...
...America. But ironically, its final form depends largely on a heavily outnumbered Republican minority. For the bill's most zealous support and its fiercest opposition are both drawn from the Senate's huge Democratic majority, illustrating only too well what Pennsylvania's Republican Governor William Scranton meant when he spoke of the Democrats two weeks ago as "a deadlocked party...
...information to the court. Towler had made electroencephalographic examinations (brainwave readings) of Ruby, told the jury that his graphs showed "paroxysmal discharges" from parts of Ruby's brain-indicating that "the subject is suffering from a seizure disorder." But in crossexamination, District Attorney Wade asked Towler if he meant to imply to the jury that Ruby had been out of his mind when he shot Oswald. Replied Towler: "I have not tried...
...Gabon's 6,000 Frenchmen that meant only one thing: the U.S. had been behind the abortive coup in hopes of discountenancing le grand Charles. This pied-noir illogic reached all the way to Paris' Quai d'Orsay, where foreign-office officials helped spread the rumor. Last week the anti-American feeling coalesced into violence. A Simca-load of colons cruised past the U.S. embassy in Libreville, peppered the building with shotgun fire. An hour later a bomb exploded in the garden...
...Delta lies vacant and barren all day; it broods in the evening and it cries all night. I get the impression that the land is cursed and suffering, groaning under the awful weight of history's sins. I can understand what Faulkner meant: it must be loved or hated...or both. It's hard to imagine how any music but the blues could have taken root in the black soil around...