Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cavite. Meanwhile Jap bombers smashed again at the Naval base at Cavite. Armed with the fruits of his fifth column's reconnaissance, he knew here, as at other targets, exactly what he was shooting at, wasted his bombs only because many of them were duds and because his aim was not nearly as good as it looked in the first week...
...commission's program is described by its chairman, the Archbishop of York, as "a conscious and deliberate attempt to cancel the divorce between theology and economics." Its avowed aim is to create an economy of abundance with "the interest of the consumer . . . the chief regulator of production...
Most comforting view of these attacks was that Japanese units were making an ineffectual nuisance of themselves. But it was more likely, in view of hardheaded operations to date, that beyond the damage they might cause the chief aim of the Japanese commanders was to create diversions, to try to suck strong units of the U.S. Fleet away from more worthwhile objectives...
Woochvard conditioned its furnaces because it figured perfect moisture control in the air blast would maintain uniform operations and uniform iron quality. It did. But OPM's chief aim is speed. Present pig-iron capacity is 56,500,000 tons and a 10% increase (via more furnaces) would take 12 to 18 months, cost about $115,000,000. Put to work now, air conditioners could do the job in five to eight months...
...type of Japanese checkers in which the aim is to surround the enemy's pieces, called go-stones, of which as many as 200 may be in play at one time. It is considered great practice in tactics...