Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some constitutional-law experts saw in the decision a new pragmatism, an emphasis on tangible results that can be read as a warning to many Northern de facto segregated schools. In any case, Georgia Governor Lester Maddox understood full well what the court's decision meant for the South. He ordered all flags on state property flown at half-mast, and in an official proclamation announced that it had been "another black and tragic Monday, when the United States Supreme Court again ruled in support of the demands of the Communist Party." The decision, he predicted with desperate hyperbole...
Some 1,500,000 voters, a quarter of the Socialists' 1963 total, defected from the Socialist ranks. In the Chamber of Deputies, that meant Nenni lost four seats, mostly to the Communists. The Communists picked up 800,000 votes, a 1.6% increase, giving them eleven extra seats in the Chamber. Thus the party maintained its postwar record of steady gains-and moved closer to its goal of a leftist majority in Italian politics. Other Nenni Socialists went over to their former ally, the pro-Communist Proletarian Socialists (P.S.I.U.P.). This far-left party gained 4.5% of the votes...
...always in the tiny tropical police state, official details of the raid-such as it was-were soon clouded in confusion, contradiction and half-truths. But one thing was certain: the invaders, in their clumsy way, meant business. Before word of the bombing reached the north, the commander of the Cap Haitien garrison drove out to the airport to investigate the landings and ran into a hail of bullets; he was seriously wounded and two aides with him were killed...
...White, who wrote for the majority. To him, the jury trial is so "fundamental to the American scheme of justice" that every citizen is entitled to it in "serious" criminal cases, whether or not another trial method might also have been fair. The court did not specify what it meant by "serious." But it implied that a maximum sentence of six months might well be the dividing line...
...meant this book to reach middle-class white children. I wasn't really trying to describe Negro children or their view of the world. I wanted to describe through the activities of children how some of these confusing social and political events occur, what gets them going, how ambiguous and tentative and accidental a lot of them...