Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bibliophiles could trace no such book, speculated that Mao may have meant The Machine Man, by Julien Offray de La Mettrie, published...
Momma, Momma, Momma. Cassius' narcissistic posturing was not meant to convince. "Actually," he confided, "I respect Liston. That look of his shakes me." It was meant to humor, to prod, to annoy, to con Champion Liston into thinking that a young (22), tall (6 ft. 3 in.), sturdy (210 Ibs.) heavyweight with 119 amateur and pro victories behind him would be easy pickings for the man-monster who had twice butchered Floyd Patterson. And, my, how he succeeded, thanks to his unwitting accomplices, the sportswriters...
...Bullish Force. In his television address to the nation, President Johnson passed along a prediction by a little-known Wall Street economist, Pierre Renfret, that business spending would grow by 20% this year-though he neglected to mention that Renfret meant only spending by manufacturing companies, expects overall spending to rise just 12%. That is still a pretty tall order, but one that the economy may well be able to fill...
...Committee hoped the student would get out of the elementary Soc Sci and Hum courses is fairly obvious. The Committee described it in rather cosmic terms as "the general art of the free man and the citizen" and "an appreciation of his cultural heritage." But what it actually meant was that it thought that there were certain books a student ought to be required to read before he graduated and certain ideas to which he ought to be exposed...
...internecine competition in New York has meant increasing militancy and increasingly professional civil rights administration. This contrasts sharply with the situation in Boston, where unity leaves the leadership free to choose an appropriate degree of militancy, and where the cadres are still untrained volunteers. There is a small core of deeply committed students in Boston who now qualify as professional organizers. But on the whole, the civil rights movement in Boston is less advanced than in New York: as the groups here gain strength, we can expect militancy and competition...