Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Going south in the winter once meant Florida. But more and more, the fast-multiplying North American species, the Winter Vacationist, is migrating to the vast scattering of islands in the sun known loosely as the Caribbean...
...University of Virginia to teach. By the time President Kennedy tapped him to be the nation's chief tax collector, Caplin was earning $15.000 a year as a professor and about $12.000 more as a consulting lawyer; taking his $20,3000-a-year post on the New Frontier meant a loss in income...
...time has come now." Khrushchev wrote Kennedy just before Christmas, "to put an end once and for all to nuclear tests. We are ready to meet you halfway." To Nikita, halfway meant two or three inspections each year to investigate suspicious tremors: the U.S. thought that eight inspections would be the minimum, having whittled that down from its original twelve. While the U.S. has been demanding that at least a dozen unmanned seismic detection stations, or "black boxes," be installed on Soviet soil, Khrushchev said that three would do-one each in Siberia's Altai Mountains, the Virgin Lands...
...matter how discriminating a connoisseur might be, it is doubtful that he can buy so fast and still maintain the quality that Price genuinely wants. What was meant to be a basement bargain in art could easily become bargain debasement. But still, the public is buying. "In square old Pasadena," says Price, "3,000 people came to the Sears art show, and 180 paintings were sold in one night. They're not buying for investment; they're buying for pleasure." It's a pleasure for Sears...
Such doleful hand wringing left many churchmen aghast, and at the conference's end, delegates approved a well-meant "Appeal to the Conscience of the American People," which called for a reign of justice, love, courage and prayer in which "voting rights and equal protection of the law will everywhere be enjoyed" and "the wounds of past injustices will not be used as excuses for new ones." The call to action was not binding on any of the religious groups represented...