Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...main influence of the emergence of drugs on their prep school scenes is a widened gap in the understanding the faculties and students of the two schools have of each other. The big secret students used to hide from their housemasters was drinking. It meant automatic boot. And there was almost always some of it around especially among the big, non-team-captain type athletes. People would get caught passed out in their rooms over Spring Weekend. A few would get kicked out each year. Dozens would come in on the bus every Saturday to tank up in the rooms...
COLES: The book was described by one critic as "well-scrubbed." It was meant to be a compliment, but it's a terribly accurate and I think just criticism of the book. Those children emerge as well-scrubbed because I couldn't use some of the swear words I would have liked...
...which meant late nights at the office for Associate Editor Laurence Barrett as he grappled with the task of writing a cover story on fast-moving Bobby Kennedy. Barrett knew just what the reporters were up against. He began writing about Bobby back in 1964 as a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune. Among his more harrowing memories is an interview he conducted in a speeding car. Senator Kennedy was driving with one casual hand while the other banged his knee for emphasis. Barrett, his eyes searching for disaster on the road ahead, had an understandably difficult time taking...
...killed in action. At the same time, the Communists launched their latest bloody round of countrywide attacks in South Viet Nam (see THE WORLD). Often suicidal, almost invariably foiled, the attacks nonetheless offered proof that Ho Chi Minh was determined and able to go on fighting while talking. It meant that, as in Korea, many more men would have to face the particularly bitter fate of dying while excruciatingly slow negotiations are trying to find...
...which both ballet and modern dance seek to evoke moods, emotions and dramatic climaxes. Whatever emotions Cunningham's audiences feel are entirely in dividual. The same movement or interplay of bodies might engender fear in one person and laughter in another-and that is the way it is meant...