Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...space, in the atmosphere and under water. When it came time for speeches, Gromyko called it "a success of the peaceful policy of the Soviet Union, a success of all the states advocating the aversion of the danger of a new war." Lord Home orated emotionally, saying the treaty meant that "every human family can live, from now on, free from fear that their unborn children will be affected by man-made poison...
...Clooney, 35, out of divorcing him. Accused of carrying on with other women throughout the nine-year marriage, José seemed subdued and penitent, insisted he still loved Rosemary and wanted a reconciliation. "Not at this time," said Rosemary, and she made it sound as if what she really meant was never, never, never. But last week, when the two flew into Cincinnati together to visit their five children, they let it be known that they had made up, after all, canceling their California divorce just a few days before it was to have become final...
...lifelong talent for spotting, seducing and sophisticating pliable provincial lasses. "I suppose," said he, "that I have been one of the most successful men with girls in London since the war." He used this gift unremittingly for his friends, who rewarded him with a social acceptance that meant far more to him than the financial proceeds of procuring...
Chasing the Men. After the fiasco, Russian Coach Gabriel Korobkov mildly suggested that some U.S. athletes seemed to be in need of "a good training." He undoubtedly meant a good spanking. Serenely overconfident, the U.S. men were ill-prepared for the ruggedness of the competition. The U.S. girls logged more time playing cards in the hotel lobby than they did practicing on the track, more time chasing the U.S. men than chasing the Russian women. They refused to take orders, lounged around listening to records, complained loudly about their rooms, their food and, oddly enough, about the fact that...
...Gradually it dawns on Miranda that Clegg is a modern version of Caliban-"anti-life, antiart, anti-everything." And she is his possession: "I am one in a row of specimens. It's when I try to flutter out of line that he hates me. I'm meant to be dead, always the same, always beautiful. My being alive and changing and having a separate mind and having moods was becoming a nuisance...