Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under the old plan, freshmen could eat three meals in each of the Houses during the month of March. This meant that they could eat in a House almost every night. Under the new system, they will be allowed one meal in each House during the months of December, January, February, and March...
Adlai Stevenson has meant more to America as a symbol than as a creative thinker or as a policy maker. He once explained the meaning of Abraham Lincoln: Lincoln was not an original thinker, yet it is to him "that people look today as democracy's foremost spokesman and exemplar. The supreme test of a democratic leader is in his democratic faith--and for this Lincoln stands pre-eminent." Although no Lincoln, Stevenson is important as a symbol and as a man. His U.N. speeches show the man in a different role, one which clouds the meanings of the symbol...
...pass and threw up a blockade of armored personnel carriers and tractor-trailers. It was the fourth such incident in a month along the 110-mile autobahn, and, as Premier Khrushchev told a group of 21 U.S. executives visiting Moscow (see THE WORLD), it could have meant war. "It is a matter of a soldier being a soldier," he said. "If someone wants to break through, then it is in the natural course of things that force will be met by force...
...another. Watching the two Bundys operate during the Viet Nam crisis, newsmen came up with their own evaluation. Inspired by the references to "Big Minh" and "Little Minh" in dispatches from Saigon, they took to referring to the Bundys as "Big Mac" and "Little Mac." By "Big Mac," they meant McGeorge, who though the younger and shorter by half a foot is presently the more powerful of the two. From the looks of things, though, a little fraternal rivalry can be expected from...
...from going too far out on a limb. Loans for stock purchases have jumped 43% in the past 16 months to $6.9 billion. While this is little more than 1% of the value of the shares on the New York Stock Exchange, the Fed figured that the upward trend meant it was time for tightening, and felt that the market was strong enough to take the margin increase...