Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the war issue is considered vital, the Teachers' Union made it clear that their essential aim was to act as a labor union and that it would be fatal to their existence to split on what to them must be a secondary matter...
...execution of another plan, another swing, but a swing in the opposite direction. Pivoting at Antwerp, the scythe swept westward. Its point at Sedan swept onward to Rethel, Laon, St. Quentin. For a time it threatened to swing far enough south to take in Paris, but its surest aim as it swept on day by day was to pin the Allied Armies in Belgium back against the Channel...
...lone Republican gleam came only from the Sixth District, where onetime fireball Pitcher Walter Johnson was nominated for Congress, and granted a 50-50 chance of election. The "Big Train," now a farmer, brushed hog feed off the hands that once sent baseballs smoking, said modestly: "Gee whiz. . . . I aim to study up on them things [foreign affairs]. ... I know some fellas that know all about those things. . . ." Republicans. While straws in the wind still showed a general trend to the G. O. P., Candidate Thomas E. Dewey, still leading the field, maintained his second tack on foreign policy...
...years it has been the aim of the English and French rulers to prevent any real consolidation of Europe and, above all, to keep Germany weak and impotent...
...this purpose France alone has declared war on Germany 31 times in 200 years. . . . What they wanted to strike was always the German people. Their responsible men quite openly admit this to be their aim*: Germany must be dashed to pieces and reduced to small States...