Word: meant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then, graciously deciding to "think it over," he combed through our registration papers, searching for damning technicalities. He didn't have far to look. It seemed our registration had expired, which meant officer Redneck could confiscate our car The prospect seemed to please him greatly...
...This is really a pseudo-event," Goldman said,"the press made a determination that this tripmeant more than it meant...
Since his wife's death two years ago, Finley says that "study has meant everything to me." Finley says he never looked elsewhere for post-retirement employment...
...inveighed against -- government." The same imbalance of reality and myth continues during the presidency, which takes up the last and weakest portion of a 41- chapter book. Here Wills' cinematic thesis tends to fade out. "What is Star Wars," he asks rhetorically, "but another, more complex projector meant to trace, in lasers and benign nuclear 'searchlights,' the image of America itself across the widest screen of all?" But Reagan is not the inventor of the Strategic Defense Initiative; he is merely its most ardent spokesman. Surely the scientists and military executives who think SDI feasible cannot all have been transfigured...
...Kings, Popes and Presidents acting out the gap between principles and applied statecraft. Says Guy Sorman of Paris University's Political Studies Institute: "Most Frenchmen believe that political power and foreign policy should be Machiavellian. Today when President Mitterrand is called a Florentine -- meaning a Machiavellian -- it is meant largely as a compliment. What Frenchmen dislike is naivete...