Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact of war seemed to be emerging: World War II is not yet a crusade. Indeed, the world over, week by week, signs came that there was less & less chance of its becoming a crusade. From Helsinki to Saipan Island, men were fighting with one real and common war aim: to win and go home. Many of them had hoped for higher aims; many still so hoped, all over the world, as in the U.S. But in the 249th week since Sept. 1, 1939, that hope seemed less sure than ever. The press made it plain that World...
...inadvertently points up an impressive irony about our country. Slum-raised Technical Sergeant Charles E. ("Commando") Kelly, who owes the country practically nothing, has fought with supreme resource and courage in order that a system of government may survive under which citizens like Sewell Avery, whose general aim is to keep citizens like the Kellys in their place, can defy that government in its own courts. This $64 angle is submitted for Hollywood's $25,000 story about the Kelly family, a movie for which I can hardly wait...
...fall of Rome, Pope Pius XII spoke to the College of Cardinals on a matter close to his heart. Clothing his thought in undulant papal prose, he begged the Allies to reconsider their stated war aim: unconditional surrender. Said he, in part...
...graver rumblings of danger came this week from central China: four strong Japanese columns had plunged southward, towards the thrice-captured, thrice-abandoned ruins of Changsha. Tokyo's aim was the last missing links in the great rail line from Korea to the South China Seas...
...Philosophy) Gallup found Michelson's opinions "based upon a complete misconception of aim and method." Said the pollster: "The people may not be fully informed on all the complexities of any given issue. But that does not stop them from having opinions. . . . Mr. Michelson ignores a point which undoubtedly he knows well, which is that opinions are subject to change and so are political tides...