Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quick tax cut; among those opposing any such move were both Wilbur Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, and Harry Byrd, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. And early in August a Gallup poll reported that 72% of the voters opposed immediate tax reduction if it meant that the Government would go deeper into debt. At that point Kennedy found himself in the position of a business executive who 1) drafts a memo arguing that his company should open additional sales offices, 2) overhears his boss say he wants to cut costs, 3) tears up the memo...
...cheering echoed from Moscow, the world was assessing what the space duet meant in terms of positive scientific achievement, the cold war, and the race to the moon. Though there was no evidence of a basic new technological breakthrough, the dual orbiting of manned space capsules was a long step toward space rendezvous-the major way station on the road to the moon. Of more immediate concern to U.S. military leaders was the clear suggestion that manned Russian space capsules might soon be capable of observing, intercepting, and possibly even destroying U.S. scientific and military satellites whirling around in space...
Floating Pencils. Unlike Gagarin and Titov, the two cosmonauts ate solid food -bite-size chunks of veal cutlet, chicken, sandwiches and pastries. "It was just as pleasant as a good restaurant," recalled Nikolayev when he landed, and, depending on his knowledge of Russian restaurants, he may have meant what he said...
...Tristan (Tenor Wolfgang Windgassen) embraced in full view of King Marke, who usually does not appear -or suspect the illicit love-until the end of Act II. The second act, like all the others, was provided with looming, symbolical sets, dominated by a huge shaft ("Of course, I meant it as a phallic symbol," snapped Wieland. "This is what the entire opera is all about, isn't it?"). The enthusiastic opening night crowd gave the reconstructed Tristan an unprecedented 30 curtain calls...
Moore writes of joke-words (squarsons and squishops are clerics who are also squires), long words (honorificabilitudinity, meaning merely "honor"), and grim words (heresy originally meant merely "private opinion," and in the shift of meaning to "private, sinful error" can be read a whole history of religious persecution). Sometimes he errs; the grisly U.S. neologism "finalize" means to confirm a tentative decision-not to finish. But the book is delightful, and to say more of its faults would be to make mountains of oontitoompses (Gloucestershire rural slang for molehills...