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Word: meant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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While we're at it, what is meant by homogenized milk? I assume it means the milk is treated so that the stuff on the top of the carton is the same as the stuff on the bottom. But if it's all milk, why do you need to homogenize...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Avoiding Bugbears, Hopefully | 3/25/1987 | See Source »

Matt Reiser had a date with Cheryl Burress last Tuesday night in Bergenfield, N.J., near New York City, but at 6:30 Cheryl called to cancel. "We can't get together tonight," she told Reiser. "We're going to visit Joe." Reiser thought he knew what she meant. Joe Major, a friend of Cheryl's, had fallen 200 ft. to his death off the Palisades cliffs along theHudson River last September in what police considered an alcohol-related accident, and Reiser figured that Cheryl was planning to visit Major's grave that night, as she had many times before. Reiser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teen Suicide: Two death pacts shake the country | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

...would like to say that this woman--this dear, kind-hearted woman--who meant so much to so many people, can now rest in peace. But such is not the case. Instead greedy slimeballs have slandered her memory in public with the single-minded and cynical aim of carving up her possessions for themselves...

Author: By Rutger Fury, | Title: Dollar Diplomacy | 3/21/1987 | See Source »

...other hand, is life not made up of small things? Lots and lots of small things? And isn't there considerable truth in that old banality of Edmund Burke's about the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil being for good men to do nothing (he presumably meant good people or good individuals, but never mind -- the creation of aphorisms was simpler in Burke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A Small Moral Quandary | 3/16/1987 | See Source »

According to Rafsanjani, the Americans "meant to say that the Soviets intended to wage a war against...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U.S. Warned Iran of Invasion | 3/14/1987 | See Source »

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