Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nassau, however, Britian showed that she was not European in this sense at all. Despite the abrupt abandonment of the Skybolt Program, which meant the end of at least semi-independence for the British, Macmillan once again leased the destiny of his country to the United States...
Days of Wine and Roses. Drunks are bores, but Jack Lemmon, wry on the rocks, is one of the most entertaining fellows who ever said cheers when they meant booze, and this is the best picture about alcoholism since The Lost Weekend...
...really ready to go to their aid-even at the expense of undertaking military action against the Cuba-based Russians? During the Kennedy-Khrushchev dialogue that arose in the October crisis, the President warned that the U.S. would not tolerate a Budapest in Cuba. What he meant was that the U.S. would intervene if Russia attempted to put down, as it did in Hungary, a Cuban revolt against Castro...
...Shortly, Gloria is chatterboxing Ben's ears with lists of suburban conformities: pulling crabgrass, going bowling, bed-hopping around. While they prate of the lack of communication among moderns, each spills a major grievance. Gloria's husband is an unread clod. Ben flunked a French exam that meant getting into college. When Ben and Gloria go to bed together, and then agree to meet weekly for more extracurricular love and French lessons, a double irony is consummated. Her special pride was her fidelity; his was being a self-taught genius. The Wallachs drum a tattoo of laughs...
...fish (Shukhov was jeered because he refused to eat fish eyes when they were floating free in the soup). The guards made the prisoners undress outside to be frisked, beat them with birch clubs, threw any who talked back into a barely heated "cell," where a ten-day sentence meant a probable case of tuberculosis and 15 days meant certain death...