Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...using their maiden names, Josephine Poszywak (Mrs. Hoffa) and Alice Johnson (Mrs. Brennan). Commercial Carriers then agreed to lease Test Fleet's ten trucks for an unlimited time. What is more, Commercial Carriers obligingly agreed to pay the bills for all the operations of Test Fleet, which meant that every cent the firm took in was pure profit...
Just as the exterior symbolized to Saarinen "the excitement of the trip," so the interior suggests the constant flow of human traffic. To Saarinen. form did not merely follow function-it was also meant to lift the spirit: "Architecture is not just to fulfill man's need for shelter, but also to fulfill man's belief in the nobility of his existence on earth...
...called Dead Horse Point, someone had waylaid a car of tourists from Connecticut, shot and wounded Charles Boothroyd, 55, shot and killed Mrs. Jeannette Sullivan, 41, and vanished into the desert with Mrs. Sullivan's teen-age daughter Denise (TIME, July 14). Cursing his reportorial luck-the timing meant that the evening Deseret News's competitor, the morning Tribune, would print the story first. Correspondent Mullins forgot about Monticello and headed for Dead Horse Point...
...doing the egg beater over and over again, Davis was able to explore, distort and transform the objects into endless arrangements on the canvas. This meant that though his inspiration might come from the object, he was not imprisoned by it. Davis' paintings became ballets of what he called "color-spaces," but the beat of the ballets was always jazz. What caught his imagination was everyday America-the gas pumps, factories, cities, the hep talk and hip music-even the signs, "the visual dialect of the city." Since he never lost touch with reality, Davis refuses to be called...
...Nightingale for her. When she was cold toward him, he wrote The Snow Queen. When he begged her to marry him, she silently handed him a mirror. That night, he wrote The Ugly Duckling. (Author Schultz offers a modified version of this famous anecdote: she claims that Jenny really meant to impugn her own appearance, arguing that it is beyond belief that Jenny Lind could be that cruel...