Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before World War II, Japan was truly a man's world. Husbands ruled as absolute masters of the home, and wives were expected to be obedient, unobtrusive and completely devoted to family and household. Divorce for a man meant little more than writing a brief decree and sending his spouse back to her family; for a wife, it was nearly unobtainable. Adultery was a criminal offense -for women...
THIS IS AN open letter from an individual, a radical, to other individuals about the crisis we face together. It is not an appeal to the conscience of liberals as a class, for by that is usually meant a deal whereby you compromise your conscience, if I compromise mine, and we both secretly try to suppress each other. This was, I take it, the general structure of the old style politics of the United Fronts of the 1930's. We don't need...
...Such intelligence!" she says. 'He didn't bother to argue, but he kept what he thought was good." Miss Vosgerchian's vehemence is meant to offer a student ideas, not impose them. Beneath an exaggerated manner is a modesty of purpose...
...parts made to take over if its tanks, valves or propellant lines failed. But space and weight limitations had forced the manufacturer, Aerojet-General Corp., to include only a single combustion chamber, fuel injector and nozzle extension skirt (see illustration). The failure of any of these parts could have meant disaster...
...apparently authentic saying of Jesus: "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." In the context of Mark's Gospel, it implies an approval of tribute payments to Rome. Brandon suggests that Jesus meant the exact opposite: any Jew worthy of the name knew that Israel and all its treasure belonged to God alone...