Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vaulting strategy of the Axis, the Madagascar setback meant more than the loss of the world's fourth largest* island, with its resources in agriculture and minerals. It meant postponement of the Axis' principal aim: control of the seas. As long as the United Nations had that control, uninterrupted around the perimeter of the world, the best the Axis could win would be a Germanized Europe. Without that control, the Jap's dream of a Greater New Order in East Asia was cobwebs and moonshine...
...first place we lacked sound political theory; we had no war aim in Burma. The people, advocating independence, were unfriendly from the beginning and when the Japanese began to succeed, this ripened into open hostility...
...Army began moving in on the A.V.G. All the signs were that Chiang Kai-shek's light-hearted mercenaries of deadly aim would soon be back in Federal service like their seam-faced leader Claire L. Chennault, recently taken off the retired list and made a Brigadier General. (The Navy and Marine Corps had a claim to some of them too; as many had been trained at Pensacola as at Randolph Field...
...Against Germany, U.S. broadcasters have begun to take studious aim. CBS, for example, which now beams seven 15-minute periods seven days a week to Germany, has a special staff of European and German experts assembled by Dorothy Thompson-a military analyst, a Protestant thinker, an authority on German-Far Eastern Affairs, a Catholic theologian- address themselves to definite groups with in the Reich. Miss Thompson gives a weekly talk for her old anti-Nazi friends in Germany. The effectiveness of this work is attested by the fact that at least two broadcasts by Miss Thompson got a rise...
...keep that aim shining before us like a light-a light for the people of Europe, for the people of Africa, for the people of Asia, for the people of South America and for the people of our own beloved land...