Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many states this has already meant a distinct change in the style of politics. Where minority group votes have literally been bought for decades in Texas--usually by the conservative machine--the new militancy within first the black community, then the brown community (Mexican-American), and now the student community have forced a change. Each minnority is making its own decisions about its goals and needs whether in minority caucuses at conventions or in community elections...
...important, relevance. It was not enough to endlessly call the demonstrators "Communists" and endlessly to denounce "police brutality." The crucial question about the riots, now three weeks past, is no longer merely who did what, with what, to whom. More important is why the melee occurred, and what it meant. So far, the press has failed sufficiently to plumb those questions...
...rhythms of the tala, he improvised compositions of the utmost subtlety, reveling in the musical growth that was taking place under his fingers, glorying in the sweat on his swarthy face. Playing a raga can be "like mounting a fiery horse," he says. His audiences could tell what he meant...
...preoccupation with decay, conceives a death wish of his own. A neighbor woman, an ancient relic of the town's past, wages a moral and psychological battle to exorcize it, finally succeeds by dying herself. But Charley lives on, haunted by the fear that he had really meant to kill...
...indeed, as matters then stood, seriously impeded in the great majority of human beings by ignorance, superstition, preconceptions, errors, by bad laws and bad institutions--in short, by bad environment. But the capacity for reason was there . . . give it a good environment and it will flower as nature meant it to flower. --Age of Reason Reader...