Word: meant
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...graduate student of English at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Diop became more conscious of Senegal's oral tradition while studying medieval English texts, which were originally meant to be transmitted orally...
...Because I smoked a cigarette, somebody was saved," Moses says. "If smoking was meant for me to have this providential moment, then it was well worth...
...personal misunderstanding" and exposed it as the social disease it is. Maybe in such an environment the next man who tries to force sex would actually leave his mind and snap--snap right out of his socially imposed deafness and hear the word "no" the way it is meant to be heard. Maybe he would realize the woman really doesn't want to have sex, no matter how much he might want her to. It's such a little thing, but it would mean so much...
...Fukuda's war room, Room 58 of the health department's downtown headquarters, a large whiteboard listed all the cases and tracked their medical progress. A big downward arrow meant death. With new urgency, Fukuda and the CDC hunted the sources of infection, collecting 3,000 blood samples and helping question some 2,500 people...
...Forty years ago, being black just meant being an outsider to the rest of the student body and sticking together out of necessity," says Fraser, "Today we are not as terrorized as before and blacks have a lot of different agendas...