Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Miss. On Okinawa, a Jap sniper took careful aim, shot Private Kenneth W. Cunningham right through the heart-or where his heart should have been. Private Cunningham, whose heart is on the wrong side, survived...
These were the chief points on which the opposition had trained its sights. But no heavy barrage was fired. Only one Senator took careful aim. Pointing a long, tobacco-stained finger, Colorado's big (200 lb.), bald Republican Eugene Donald Millikin lined up his target: the use of U.S. armed forces under the Charter. He asked: what control would the U.S. retain over its share of an international armed force? Could the U.S. reserve to itself decision over where and how to use its forces? Senator Millikin's close questioning of John Foster Dulles, the Committee...
...jugglery and nebulous formulas noted with surprise his crisp, matter-of-fact candor. He impressed them as a disciplined, cultured administrator sympathetic to Indian aspirations, less concerned with his office than with Indian good will. To Gandhi (then in jail) he wrote: "I am in entire accord with that aim [Indian self-government] and only seek the best means to implement it without delivering India to confusion and turmoil...
...Senator Harley M. Kilgore, sweating and aggressive, paraded official witnesses before his subcommittee on war mobilization. His aim was to compile information for anti-cartel legislation. What emerged was proof that industrial Germany had been neither defeated nor destroyed, and that only a strong Allied policy could keep down the German will...
...portfolios of Finance, Home Affairs and External Affairs (save for "tribal and frontier matters") will be Indian-administered. India's diplomatic service abroad will be staffed by Indians. aim will be a "balanced representation of the main communities, including equal proportions of Moslems and caste Hindus."