Word: meant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doing a New York '60s theme as opposed to a West Coast one," Jope explains. "It's a little bit harder-edged and more plastic. It's vinyl and chrome versus communes and granola. That girl just looks as if she was meant to be in the go-go booth...
Practical-minded modern Americans have been contemptuous of follies, those curious buildings meant only to charm and delight. But recent architectural fashion has been tending toward the fey, even the frivolous. This winter in the American heartland, form follows fantasy completely: in St. Paul and Galveston, Texas, local volunteers have just finished putting up elaborate municipal whimsies...
GROWING UP near the Florida panhandle, meant the inevitable spring break pilgrimage to Destin beach. Around this time every year, the diets began. Bananas only the first day; then strawberries the next, then apples the next. But at the beach, you could finally drink and eat potato chips--unless it started showing--and fast for the next day until your stomach was flat...
...woman can walk in public without being whistled at or worse. Offred wonders what her mother, if still alive, thinks about the new Puritanism: "Wherever you may be. Can you hear me? You wanted a women's culture. Well, now there is one. It isn't what you meant, but it exists...
There were signs that Museveni meant what he said. After past coups in Uganda, victorious troops have raped and plundered with abandon, but this time strict orders were issued against looting, along with a threat to shoot offenders. For the most part, the orderly soldiers of his National Resistance Army obeyed. That alone impressed many observers. The Presidents of neighboring Kenya, Zaire and Rwanda issued a joint communique expressing their satisfaction with the progress the Museveni government had made toward restoring peace and security in Uganda...