Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government insisted that the bride must leave the country, but Armed Forces Commander Alfredo Ovando promised that she could return to see her husband. "Let her go somewhere to wait for a while," Ovando told the French consul, "but not too far up north." By which he meant, of course, not to Cuba...
...worst is Elizabeth Taylor, who has a series of walk-ons mostly meant to exemplify lust. Her makeup varies from Greek statuesque to a head-to-toe spray job of aluminum paint. When she welcomes Burton to an eternity of damnation, her eyeballs and teeth are dripping pink in what seems to be a hellish combination of conjunctivitis and trench mouth. Mercifully mute throughout, she merely moves in and out of camera range, breasting the waves of candle smoke, dry-ice vapor and vulgarity that swirl through the sets...
...Communist propaganda movies, accompanied by a booming sound track. "The purpose," explains Co-Organizer David Peterson, 23, a University of Denver graduate, "was to make people aware that violence is going to be a great part of American civilization unless people start doing something about it." The film was meant to blow the minds of the viewers, but they blew their cool instead. Some raced around trying to pull the plugs of the projectors; others tried to get their hands on the organizers. "We were very close to physical violence," recalls Lloyd-Jones. "Instead of getting angry...
...nonauto and all over seas operations. But he was keenly disappointed at his failure to win G.M.'s presidency last fall. Instead, his only obvious rival, Edward N. Cole, 58, won the job that Knudsen had coveted and courted for most of his life. Cole's ascension meant not only that Knudsen's road to promotion was blocked for at least another four years; it also meant that even if Knudsen did follow Cole to the top at G.M., he would have so few years to serve before mandatory retirement at 65 that his age might deny...
...this year, U.S. corporations have floated or announced $443 million of bond issues abroad, all denominated in dollars-which meant that they could be bought only with Eurodollars. The total approaches the $497 million worth of bonds that U.S. firms sold in Europe during all of 1966; it is only a fifth less than the $527 million they sold all last year. The surge of American offerings has impelled several European borrowers to postpone their own Eurobond issues...