Word: meant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Leaving my pack in a hotel, I headed for the Bright Angel Trail, ignoring all warnings about being prepared for the hike down into the Canyon. The signs that said "WARNING--Take four quarts of water with you or DIE!" were meant for those fat Iowans in Winnebagoes, not for healthy young adventurers like me. I cockily jogged the eight miles down to the mighty Colorado, drank from its roaring waters, spit out the dusty mouthful, and after some exploring went to sleep in a side canyon to avoid the noon heat...
...standard, but erroneous, defense of the grant is that it was meant not to offer a "political judgment," as London's Sunday Times put it, but merely to help the refugees?there are up to 100,000?who are cared for just beyond Rhodesia's borders by the revolutionary Patriotic Front. Opponents of the guerrillas argue that many of the refugees were forced to flee Rhodesia by Patriotic Front troops. Even if that is true, there is no doubt that many women and children in the camps are in a pitiable state and that their need for Christian charity...
...popularly elected lawmakers. "Personal repugnance toward these crimes cannot be a legitimate basis for rewriting the statute as it was adopted by the legislature," she wrote. Stanford Criminal Law Professor John Kaplan agrees: "Rape, in itself, shouldn't be bodily harm. I think that's what the legislature meant. There's a whole line of cases about this...
Gogol promised Pushkin, who gave him the idea for the plot, that his play would be "funnier than hell." It is fair to assume that Gogol meant the stress to fall equally on the first and last words. Greatly gifted though he is, Rumanian Director Liviu Ciulei has ignored the balance and projected the work as knockabout farce with an infusion of German impressionism. The result is that the characters become animated puppets and imbecilic caricatures of venality. They are robbed of the quality of vulnerable humanity that lies at the heart of the play, the play wright...
Having his father as the coach could have meant undue pressure while growing up and resentment on the part of his teammates, but Cuccia claims that neither of these were problems. "He would just ask, 'Do you want to do this?' If I hadn't wanted to that would have been fine. But I love football, so it didn't matter. In high school, if I was no good he wouldn't have played...