Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Along with his program, Johnson initiated a spate of wide-ranging actions to implement it. "We have a target," he said, "and we are going to put all the muscle that this Government has behind the dollar." He meant it. Three teams were dispatched abroad to urge "cooperative action" from America's allies-one headed by Under Secretary of State Nicholas Katzenbach to Europe, another led by Under Secretary for Political Affairs Eugene Rostow to Asia, a third captained by Assistant Secretary for Economic Affairs Anthony Solomon to Canada. Preliminary negotiations were under way to offset the cost...
...Resistance encourages kids to take the step that will cause these changes. That's what I meant by creating energy. Harvard SDS has been called a debating society. That wasn't true during the Dow business, but it tends to be true, partly because the politics of most of those kids are determined by getting up in Dunster House and going to class. They will act when their conditions are such that they have...
...school. At 137, Harvard's Bruce Goodman suffered a dislocated elbow in the third period of his match with Jack Wu. But the five points M.I.T. received for that match had hardly been tallied on the score board when M.I.T.'s Jack Maxham, at 145, dislocated his knee. It meant a first-period forfeit victory to Harvard's Jeff Seder, and a matching five points for the Crimson in the team score...
According to Haberler, Schacht introduced a number of measures, such as a tax on travel in Austria, in order to avoid devaluing the mark. Devaluation would have meant a loss of political prestige, and was therefore considered an unacceptable alternative...
...Failure meant the end of the world. I had to succeed or we'd all die. Agonizing seconds ticked by on the studio clock as I waited for the decision of the New Zenith ministers...