Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation's capital investment had been allotted to its development. Though the gross industrial product increased by 123%, gross farm production rose a mere 26%, scarcely more than the eight-year population growth, by Western estimates. Common sense demanded that more help be given agriculture, even if it meant a pause in the forced drive toward heavy industry. But Mao Tse-tung treats economic problems exactly as he would an enemy's main line of resistance: by ordering forward a human wave to storm and overwhelm it. He conceded that the farms desperately needed chemical fertilizer, machines...
...arranged that Tod Rockefeller would sue for the divorce-not in New York, where adultery is the only ground, but probably in her native Philadelphia, where divorce hearings can be held in camera. The prospect of divorce had not changed his political plans, and aides announced that he meant to keep scheduled impending speaking engagements in Kansas, Maine and North Carolina...
...Princeton astronomer-mathematician, Lovett scoured the world's great universities to get ideas for infant Rice. He brought in such scholars as Julian Huxley, made sure that his first 77 freshmen ("these torchbearers of the sun dawn") meant business. When only 39 students stayed the route to graduation, Rice was permanently stamped as the toughest school in Texas...
...their galleries a choice bequest in Mrs. Erickson's will. But most of the paintings were left to her in trust, and Anna Erickson decided that her own estate should be divided into 90 parts, to accommodate all the heirs (relatives, friends and charities), and that meant that it had to be liquidated. She died last Feb. 7 of a stroke; Parke-Bernet's first memo on how to get the job of auctioning the Erickson collection was dated...
...Reverend Gary Davis at Eliot House Tuesday night was a fascinating experience. One of the last of the street singers, Davis performs with an honesty that is becoming rare in folk singing. It was good to hear many of the old blues songs sung the way they were meant to be performed. In this age of the commercial and souped-up folk song, one easily forgets how the originals used to sound...