Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...press censors, came to cheer me up." (Pyle at this time had what he called "African Pip" or "Puny Pyle's Perpetual Pains.") "I was busy killing flies. . . . Lieut. Clark said he had discovered . . . that flies always take off backwards. Consequently if you'll aim about two inches behind them, you'll always get your fly on the rise. So for the next few days I murdered flies under this scientific system. And I must say that I never missed a fly as long as I aimed behind...
...specimens as to how to do six different things at the same time. The C. O.ordered pay day the next day for the crew, officers, and an attached coast guard cutter ... An armed guard crew was picked up floating into port with partial pay cards .. After their latest Ready, Aim, Fire, Abandon Ship episode ... He started spreading his specimens in the gangways and tacking them on the bulkheads ... Ensign Drawers began to tighten up ... He had to pull through ... After all he had to make the next American Legion if he wanted to run for Congress...
...East remained a question. Axis propaganda had stimulated anti-Zionism throughout Islam, and had left Moslem nationalism aglow. General Giraud's firm stand last week was probably the wisest policy for the moment, but it did not allay the Moslem suspicion that the Allies have only one war aim-to chase out the Axis, insure a safe base for military operations and keep what they have won in battle...
Today an I.E.O. is the aim of two major U.S. educators' groups. The U.S. Committee on Educational Reconstruction wants "to make sure that no country will again use education for poisoning." The Liaison Committee for International Education is trying to stimulate U.S. public interest in postwar educational problems. On record favoring an I.E.O. are spokesmen of China and of the exiled Governments of Poland, Czecho-Slovakia, Jugoslavia, Greece...
...Lewis had ordered the miners back to work. By setting up a fifteen day limit for further negotiations perhaps he emphasized the impermanence, perhaps the save-faced-ness of his bridled patriotism. His performance, in either case, was not anti-climaxed but transcended by executive expression of a national aim. Without belittling the part of tiny strands and small threads, the President successfully emphasized the whole fabric of the nation...