Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...admitted that U.S. war-material production was not yet enough. He pounded heavily at the sacrifices ahead: "The defense of America's freedom must take precedence over every private aim and over every private interest. We are engaged on a grim and perilous task. Forces of insane violence have been let loose by Hitler upon this earth. We must do our full part in conquering them...
Strength of the N.C.C.J. is that it makes no attempt to water down the religious convictions of Protestants, Catholics and Jews to a least common denominator. Instead, it tries to promote inter-faith and interracial good will by eliminating mutual mistrust based on ignorance. The movement's ultimate aim: to make the world safe for differences...
Last week his Ukraine strategy became apparent. It was his aim to encircle the Russian defenders and contain them in the great geographical sack defined by the Dniester and Dnieper Rivers and the Black Sea; there to cut them up. Wrote authoritative Dienstaus Deutschland of this ambitious undertaking: "The size of the encircled area or the time required to liquidate it is not important. What counts is that the enemy is grabbed; he can't retreat and he is destroyed...
That is the ultimate meaning of the war against Naziism: "There can be no peace of compromise with Naziism. . . . There can be no compromise with revolution. Every revolution lives by its claim to exclusive authority. . . . What we wanted and what we failed to achieve, and what will be the aim of the peace to come, is the end of the revolution...
...damn it," said Mr. Young, "you can't just go off and leave a man's crop like that. . . . And so far you've got the best stand you've had in twenty years." "I don't aim to just leave no man," said Paw, "seems like you ought to be able to git enough hands to finish just this one crop...