Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Greece, free of the Germans, was rapidly occupied by the British. Athens and its port of Piraeus were entered by British troops after the Greek flag was hoisted by patriot fighters. The British aim was to: 1) prevent internecine war between left and right; 2) maintain Britain's influence in a traditionally close Mediterranean country; 3) provide food, clothing, medicine...
...every ten of the missiles launched from the ramps of the Channel coast was equipped with a radio transmitter so that its course could be followed, corrections made accordingly for direction and range. Result: the Germans, without much information on the winds over England, were still able to aim the flying bombs with disconcerting precision. Once the course of the radio-equipped pilot bombs had been charted, the crews could send off more, with fair assurance that they could hit any neighborhood of London...
...that smacke'd Sinatra squarely between the eyes. The egger, one Alexander Ivanovich Dorogokupetz, was mobbed by Sinatra's fans but rescued by police and ushers. Said Dorogokupetz: "I vowed to put an end to this monotony of two years of consecutive swooning. . . . I took aim and threw . . . it hit him . . . his mouth was open . . . I felt good...
...western front, where Allied spearheads had pierced the fatherland, the Germans fought in fierce gusts of frenzy, and with high military skill. The U.S. First Army held the spotlight on this front, as it widened and deepened its salient north of Aachen. The aim was for a breakthrough that would sweep the Germans back to the Rhine-but the pace was grinding and generally slow. For the time, at least, it was a painful battle of attrition. At several points west of the Rhine, the German counterattacks forced the Allies to back up, to grope for new footing...
...happy balance between individualistic capitalism and proletarian communism" is the ultimate aim of all Chinese revolutionary efforts today, Chi-yun Chang of the National University of Chekiang declared last night at the Institute of Geographical Exploration in the last of four Monday lectures on "China in a New World...