Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...themes of belittlement, isolation, and neglect ran contrapuntally through the chorus of complaint. Enering the Graduate School as an elite selected from long lists of applicants, the students seemed to feel that the actual reception meant that nobody really cared for them or their opinions. It is as if they had wandered into a society of competitive, specialized scholars who might perhaps train them to run the academic race but who refused to meet them on the ground of what is meaningful and relevant in their own lives...
...offers he received from private business after last Nov. 5 would have meant putting himself out to pasture. The green was all but irresistible; some of the proffered posts would have made him instantly wealthy. They included the presidencies of an international-development firm, two Wall Street brokerage houses and a major mutual fund. But all of them would have precluded further political activity. The most remarkable offer, however, came from the American who probably senses more keenly than any other a defeated candidate's need to work for the future as well as the present. Richard M. Nixon...
...such fighting was merely meant as a reminder by the Communists that they were still in the contest after months of quiescence, it was a costly one-even if the estimate of 6,500 Communist dead proves exaggerated. The question remained as to whether Hanoi had finished making its point-and testing Nixon's resolve-or whether it was just beginning an even bloodier trial than the all-encompassing Tet offensive of a year ago. No one, in Washington or in Saigon, disputes the fact that the Communists have the strength to launch such a drive-if they...
Glimp said he could not define what was meant by "flagrant" but suggested that any student who had a girl living in his room for any extended period of time, for example, was being "very flagrant...
...could play it as good as they could. It was great." Today, he is puzzled by the notion that only Negroes have suffered enough to sing the blues. "I've had trouble too, and everybody has trouble. Just living is a different kind of trouble." Living for Johnny meant dealing with a minority problem of his own: "Being an albino is hard, and when you're younger, it's a lot harder. When they said 'Hey, Whitey,' it was just like calling someone a nigger. They called me anything-fag, queer, freak...