Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...costs of labor racketeering was the same man who assaulted apartheid on it's home territory. They seemed to forget that the drive for a nuclear non-proliferation treaty began only after Kennedy publicly raised the issue in a 1965 Senate speech. They didn't see that Kennedy meant as much to the frenzied crowds as they did to him. They refused to take his humor for its own sake, but insisted it was his sly reaction to the "ruthlessness...
...sense that their own participation, wholly apart from his own future, would in time yield results. The upshot of his pitch was a multiple victory: alienated blacks and poor whites voted en masse in Indiana and California, clinched Kennedy wins, and got a brief feeling that their votes actually meant something...
Before, at a university, the pressures to conform meant a lack of commitment. What was cool was to be critical of things from the sidelines. Joining political organizations was not cool. It was better to talk and sneer. But now, in a new milieu, it is exciting to act. It is romantic...
...officers of the new Radcliffe student government--the Radcliffe Union of Students. Born of many years of boredom and dissatisfaction with student government, where a few devoted student-government types had traditionally limited their concerns to the next jolly-up or strawberry breakfast, the RUS constitution was meant to give students a more responsible and creative role in the University...
...short, RUS meant student power. It called for student representation on the Council and autonomy in ruling its own house--in the past the Council has had to approve any change to the student government's constitution...