Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surgical operation performed by nine men in black robes on the racial Maginot Line which is imbedded as deep as sex or the lust for lucre in the schismatic American psyche. This piece of social surgery ... is more marvelous than a successful heart transplant would be, for it was meant to graft the nation's Mind back onto its Body and vice versa...
...North Vietnamese concessions have not been purchased without cost. The United States has paid for them with time, and in non-military terms, time has been costly indeed. Time has meant lives spent on both sides fighting a futile war we never should have entered. It has meant the alienation of youth and a general swing to the right in domestic politics. It has meant money which could have been going to out cities, the split of the liberal consensus, and the rupture of Democratic party...
...conference. He showed himself content to have helped get negotiations started by renouncing a second term and declaring a partial bombing halt. "I think the decision of March 31st was indicated, was justified," he said, "and I am more pleased by it every hour that goes by." If that meant the Paris negotiations would get serious any hour-or that an end to more than four years of U.S. bombing in North Viet Nam was imminent-he was not telling...
Fast Profit. Military scrip was introduced three years ago as a way of curbing the growing black market in regular U.S. currency. The new red-colored MFCs were meant to be valid only in such U.S. establishments as post exchanges and officers' clubs...
Ultimately the real concern of this movie is not to tell us what the Charge of the Light Brigade meant, but simply to show us how it looked. And this, for all the cast of thousands and the vast expanses of eerie, treeless Turkish landscape, is something which Richardson doesn't really succeed in doing. Individual sequences are sometimes breathtaking--Nolan delivering the order to charge from the heights, the Brigade advancing down the valley at a slow trot, the final torrential surge of the survivors through the Russian cannon. But hovering above the whole elaborately-conceived spectacle...