Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...puppet in much of Latin America. When Kennedy forced Khrushchev to retrieve his long-range missiles and bombers, respect for the U.S. soared. Yet much of that has been dissipated by the realization that Cuba's potential for troublemaking in the hemisphere is still growing. That threat alone meant that there would be much worth talking about at the Presidents' meeting...
...things. But Raul has got his head screwed on right; he's a true friend, and there are others." "Speaking of heads," came the answer, "the other day Fidel said, 'It's time we started using our own heads.' What do you think he meant if not that we've been doing too much of his thinking for him?" A lady schoolteacher cut in: "Some years ago, I was sent to China to give lessons. At the time, we were pouring lots of aid into China, and see what happened. I shouldn't like...
...rule of Nazi-organized councils of Jewish elders in European ghettos. Backed by their own high-booted Jewish police, the councils compiled death lists of Jews and rounded up their own people for deportation to Nazi extermination camps. Refusal to help Eichmann's "transportation" experts would have meant immediate death, but always there was the agonizing moral dilemma: even under duress, was cooperation not betrayal? Last week Israeli Prosecutor David Libai gave the state's answer in the first trial of a Jewish policeman who served the Nazis. Its answer...
Entitled "Man's Place in Nature," the course will have a historical and biological approach to anthropology. However, Howells said that "it is not meant to be a bio course in the sense of formal biology." Replacing Anthropology 10, it will review the past hundred years of evolutionary theory and end with a presentation of current thought. The behavior of other primates will be emphasized as a key to understanding...
Similarly, Myra Rubin gives us only the madness of the Duchess; none of the tragic side of this eccentric character emerges. Lord Hector, the Duchess' companion, is meant to be a stuffed turkey and Atilla Dolanyi is a fine, pompous turkey indeed...