Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attack was actually aimed at quite another Mr. K. Following the rules by which these games are played, it was possible to learn what the Chinese meant by substituting Khrushchev's name wherever Kautsky's was mentioned. "Kautsky robs Marxism of its revolutionary, living spirit," charged the Chinese. "He is a hidden opportunist. He does not preach revolution, does not carry on the wholehearted revolutionary struggle, and in order to avoid such a struggle resorts to the tritest, ultra-Marxist-sounding excuses." On a less rarefied plane, the widening split between China and Russia is also much...
...basic philosophy of French chic: comfort and simplicity as opposed to the cinched-up complexity many another designer has confused with high style. Brooks's clothes are generally sleeveless and unclinging; he does not think that tight fits are elegant. Says he: "My clothes are not meant to be worn by people who have no personalities of their own." One of his personality people is Jacqueline Kennedy, who picked three of his dresses for her tour of India and Pakistan...
...mile circuit 117 miles southwest of Paris. Sharing his seat with Belgian Co-Driver Olivier Gendebein, Hill was in easy command for most of the race, at one point set a new lap record of 126.750 m.p.h. for the course, then settled down to nurse a sick clutch, which meant driving in fourth gear for the last six hours. At the finish. Hill's nearest competitor was five laps and 42 miles behind, giving the U.S. driver his third Le Mans victory in five years...
...Hobbs Takes a Vacation. Dad (James Stewart) has a voice like a defective windshield wiper. Mom (Maureen O'Hara) is a handsome illustration of what Oscar Wilde meant when he said that women as a sex are "sphinxes without secrets." Son (Michael Burns) is a TV idiot, who blinks like a mole in daylight. Daughter (Lauri Peters), upset by her teeth braces, keeps her face knotted in such a wooden expression that she could pass for a ventriloquist's dummy. It would be better if these people had never met, but in this family-situation formula comedy they...
...department stores were beginning to win back business from him. His after-tax profits on invested capital plunged from 29% in 1956 to 9% in 1958. (Currently, they stand at 23%.) Fighting back, Ferkauf determined to challenge the department stores in the place where they were strongest. This meant getting into service, style-and soft goods...