Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Halsey Edge was a small scrawny man of fifty-something, with a pinched yellow face and no hair at all. He called himself "a ghoul by profession and inclination"--his only joke, if that is what it was--by which he meant he was an archaeologist, and he was very proud of his collection of battle-axes. He was not so bad once you had resigned yourself to the fact that you were in for occasional cataloguings of his armourystone axes, copper axes, bronze axes, double-bladed axes, faceted axes, polygonal axes, scalloped axes, hammer axes, adze axes, Mesopotamian axes...
...parties to get on with negotiations. Last week the great powers gave fresh evidence of their heightened concern that the fighting might get out of hand. Russia publicly urged a political settlement, declaring for the first time that it would not "permit" a resumption of war-whatever that meant. Washington registered its anxiety by calling in the Israeli and Jordanian ambassadors. They were warned against the dangers of continuing to violate the tattered cease-fire agreement that ended...
...Cambridge which has a 35% Negro population,' argued last month that the Sixth Amendment guarantees his client a speedy trial "in the vicinage" of the alleged crime The phrase is nowhere in the amendment But, citing a letter from James Madson Kunstler contended that the framers had meant the amendment to cover this right. The judge has yet to rule on the argument...
...style of reasoned discussion, as employed during the conference, meant more than just the application of analysis to social problems. It meant an approach to ideas, and specifically ideas as solutions to social problems. Intellectuals, of course, are idea-smiths by definition. Their livelihood and self-confidence depend on their ability to apply reason to problems. But in many ways, the ego-in-volvement of the participants was all too apparent at the conference. There were few questions asked and many speeches made. Lines of argument were rarely followed up. The participants sat while one would-be lecturer after another...
Inviting radicals or more blacks would not have meant solving any more problems, but it would at least have provided a break in the conference style. As it turned out, the most effective and stirring moments usually occurred when someone let down his guard, or when a dispute among conferees reproduced social conflicts in the conference room. The first day, John B. Oakes, editorial page editor of the New York Times, and Roy Innis squared off in a debate over the relative merits of integration and black separatism as solutions to black problems. While the exchange was nothing...