Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their programs have actually accomplished. The House cut $612 million from the NASA appropriations bill last month but also reaffirmed its determination to race the Russians to the moon. Kennedy, in equally mysterious fashion offered to cooperate with the Russians at the United Nations, and then said his speech meant nothing when he returned to the White House. Neither the Administration nor Congress has made clear why the United States should reach the moon so quickly at so great a cost...
Governor Peabody showed considerable courage, as well as laudable regard for morality and statistical evidence, last January by coming out against capital punishment. His subsequent commutation of Kerrigan's sentence even though the Executive Council overruled it, indicated that he meant what he said...
...with the cry: "It isn't there for someone to wipe his nose on!" More recently Mussolini, who frowned on the custom in any form, tried to discourage il baciamano. He might as well have tried to suppress spaghetti. The Nazis also deplored the Handkuss- good Germans were meant to give the Hitler salute instead-but der Führer himself was often photographed with his forelock fanning some actress...
...other Europeans. He somehow gives the impression that he is afraid of catching germs. To purists, the greatest danger is that the art, dry or wet, is becoming too popular. "When a man used to kiss your hand, and did it right," mourns one venerable German baroness, "it meant he was well-bred. Now you can't be sure any more." Of course, she adds slyly, "I can still distinguish between a genuine antique and a fake. I can feel it in my fingertips...
...Chinese!" a famous German Sinologist, Ernst Grosse, had exclaimed when he bought 16 of Bissier's works in 1919. "I was puzzled," says Bissier, but in 1920 he began studying Zen Buddhism, and at length saw what Grosse meant. "The key element of my work is the balance of contrasting things," he says. He seeks with the brevity of his brushstroke what he calls the "concept of bipolarity": the yin-yang principle of gentle seesawing between the male and female, the calm and the restless, always seeking the ultimate equation that man can never quite strike...