Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Present aim of the War Department is an army of three and a half million men-so said Secretary Stimson. Estimates of ultimate aims are astronomical...
...greatest success of the week, like the greatest successes of the war, belonged to wily Marshal Semion Timoshenko. He sent his men on an oblique, ten-day, 65-mile plunge into the Donets Basin. His aim was to cut direct communications between the great center of Kharkov and the south. This he did at Lozovaya...
...Farther south, the Russians pulled another sneak near the Sea of Azov, advancing 115 miles beyond German-held Taganrog. Here their ultimate aim was to choke oft' German communications into the vital Crimea...
What is a submarine menace? It is certainly not the scatter-aim, hope-to-hit show that Jap subs have put on off the Pacific Northwest. It is, in 1942, a grim thing...
...shaved head to the bottom of his splay-toed feet he is hard. His buttocks are big with marching. His arms are strong, and he can dig himself into a shallow trench quickly and neatly. His eyes are generally good, and there is no physical reason why his aim should not be clean...