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Word: meant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...life begins and life goes on in the NBA. It promises everything and promises nothing. The stars are there as always, but they realize now that the pay is good, the stage all theirs, and The Fans something that meant more during college...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Little Hoop, Lots of Hoopla | 10/12/1978 | See Source »

...then, are we so willing to celebrate European colonialism in America? Needless to say, Columbus Day is not designed to commemorate Chris Columbus's personal success in bumbling into a "new" continent. It's meant to pay tribute to the European "discovery" of America, the first step in the creation of the European colonies here. In that way, it is a tribute to American colonialism...

Author: By William A. Schwartz, | Title: Goodbye, Columbus Day | 10/12/1978 | See Source »

...just hope you'll be able to walk," Alice said, watching me go after the second course--a torte made with minced conch. I knew she meant nothing by the remark. She wanted to protect me from overeating in the same way I wanted to protect her from a volcano that had once erupted and killed thirty thousand people...

Author: By Mary G. Gotschall, | Title: Haute Cuisine Over Easy | 10/10/1978 | See Source »

...altitude on the radarscope ($3,500). Even some private pilots concede that special training for those wishing to enter the high-pressure "bird cages" around major airports should be required. But the problem is how this experience can be obtained without posing the very danger it is meant to prevent -as at San Diego, where the special training available only at Lindbergh Field drew the Cessna into the area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Death over San Diego | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

...March 1977, and it seemed to lend credence to a theory that mobsters had plotted to kill J.F.K. because of his Administration's crackdown on organized crime. But Aleman, admitting that he was afraid of Trafficante's wrath, remembered differently last week. The mobster, he testified, probably meant only that Kennedy would be hit by Republican votes in 1964, not bullets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The President And the Capo | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

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