Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week Eleanor Roosevelt curled her claws, wrote in My Day: "And so Mr. Wendell Willkie has been nominated. . . . I do not know Mr. Willkie, but the headline in one of the metropolitan papers yesterday said: 'Willkie aims at unity, defense and recovery.' ... In heaven's name, will anyone aim at anything else? Sometimes I wonder whether we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something...
These declarations coincided with military and politico-military action. Ostensibly the action was intended to finish off the long resistance of China (see p. 20) by cutting off China's Burmese and Indo-Chinese sources of military supply. But the bigger aim was terribly clear. Pressure was applied at every nerve centre of foreign interests...
...secret. Year ago Herman Rauschning (The Revolution of Nihilism) reported among other Nazi in tentions since acted on by Hitler that "In the National Socialist [Nazi] view, the political situation in America is unstable, and can be developed into an outright revolution; to do this is both a tactical aim ... to hold America aloof from Eu rope, and a political one ... to bring North and South America into the new order." And Dr. Rauschning quotes Nazi Propagandist Goebbels' boast: "Nothing will be easier than to produce a bloody revolution in North America. No other country has so many social...
June 2Q. Halifax denies that encirclement is British aim...
...tender flesh, the child was caught into the air, and with powerful pinions beating, the eagle headed for its eyrie. At that moment the child's father spreng out the door with his rifle. Without an instant's hesitation, risking the child's life if his aim were not true, he fired. The great bird tumbled to earth. Except for lacerations, the little girl was unhurt...