Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...means certain, and as the debate began, an unlikely coalition of mayors, educators, labor leaders and big businessmen belatedly joined the battle. Scattered local programs began to close for lack of appropriations at the same time, and Congressmen who had been cool suddenly realized what the war on poverty meant back home. What Arizona Democrat Morris Udall called OEO's "hidden and silent" support started to surface...
...emphasized that the citizen's crime committee is not meant to be a civilian police review board, but rather a group to suggest changes in all crime-related matters, including city lighting as well as the police force...
...m.p.h. demanded by the bumpy, unpaved road. Back at the house, his wife kneaded the dough for the day's bread, then took soap and dishcloth to wash the Mason jars in which she was about to preserve apple butter. When she hurried out to get provisions, it meant going to the grocer, the butcher, the druggist, and the hardware store to get all the items on her list. By the time she got home, it was far too late to stop by for a chat with her neighbor Gladys, five blocks away; nor could she phone to explain...
...necessity of reinterpretation. Though the Warren court is by no means the first to spend time interpreting what it has already said, it has had to do a large amount of this work. And sometimes the clarification can lead to new uncertainties, as did Miranda, which was meant, said Warren. "to give concrete constitutional guidelines" in answer to the questions raised by Escobedo...
...puts it, "a hard prosecutor." As for civil rights, he outspokenly backed the infamous internment of all California residents with Japanese blood during World War II. Finally, as three-term Republican Governor, he vigorously expressed his opposition to a more representative reapportionment of voting districts; it would have meant less power for his party...