Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Taking careful aim and with obvious satisfaction, Beverly Vincent planted a good hard right, smack! It staggered, and silenced, Martin Sweeney. Though Congressmen not infrequently threaten one another and have been known to throw bound copies of the Record* when vexed, ancient Doorkeeper Joseph Sinnot said it was the best blow he had heard in his 50 years in the House...
...Germany's attacks continued, without growing much heavier but with systematic aim and frequency, neutral observers watched Britain for signs of cumulative strain, for creeping paralysis such as preceded France's sudden collapse under steady pressure...
perfection of national-defense structure." The aim which gave the key to his purpose was to hitch Army and Government into a harness in which they would pull together. It was to be a military-dominated structure, as was the Shogunate...
Local authority-and local self-support-is the aim of all sound missionary endeavor. At the International Missionary Council at Madras in 1938, churchmen of all nations hailed the coming-of-age of native Christian leadership in Asia. But once a missionary district becomes independent, it is exposed to enemies from without and within. In Japan that independence came gradually after World War I, was paralleled by a growing hostility to Christianity in Japanese officialdom. Since churchmen and mission boards outside Japan made no conspicuous effort to stiffen Japanese Christians' backbone, concessions to nationalism became inevitable...
...down "back of the yards" district (subject of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle), whose packinghouse population of 65,000 is almost 95% Catholic. Fifteen months ago, with the bishop's blessing, friendly, chesty Jewish Sociologist Saul Alinsky set up a Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council. Aim: to reconcile the potentially conflicting interests of business, labor, politics and religion in a crowded, depressed industrial area. Typical Council results to date: C. I. O. leaders helping the Chamber of Commerce in its membership drive; 1,200 hot meals free each day for undernourished children; a new recreation centre five...