Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...death. I don't think they'll go quite that far in Chicago." Senator George McGovern, who went to Chicago claiming roughly 125 to 150 votes, hoped a deadlocked convention might turn to him. But backing from many supporters of the late Robert F. Kennedy has not meant much in terms of delegate strength...
...Lyndon Johnson, who, as practically everyone had" been betting, would run again-but who then announced his abdication and partial de-escalation in Viet Nam. (Everyone had learned to expect such sudden surprises from 1968, and from L.B.J., that till the last moment there was doubt if he really meant...
...suddenly expanded life has been little short of traumatic. Previously, her orbit had been limited, by her preference, to luncheons with the Kiwanis' Ki-Wives, the Women's Civic League and the Federation of Republican Women. Entertainment at the Governor's mansion in Annapolis often meant pocket billiards, pingpong, or an evening's placid TV watching in the basement club room...
...Paris. That got him into Kings County (Brooklyn) Hospital for two years, and later he was named chief of both thoracic and vascular surgery at Harlem Hospital. So far, so good-or at least, not bad. But then Columbia's P. & S. took over Harlem, in a well-meant but abortive attempt by the city to raise ghetto-hospital standards. Columbia's white administrators did not bother to consult or even notify Dr. Cordice. They simply announced that two of their brethren were taking over the thoracic and vascular divisions, but Dr. Cordice was told that he could...
...radio with its dials spinning crazily. Dissonant 12-tone textures melted into a gypsy air. A rock beat crashed into Renaissance madrigals. Ragtime, ragas, taped noises and electronic bleeps tumbled together in a swirl of sound that satirized serious music as much as schmalz. Silverman says it was all meant to be "fun, like raping the styles...