Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recent U.S. note asking a $15 million indemnity to the U.S.-owned United Fruit Co. for 233,973 acres of expropriated banana lands: "Blackmail." ¶ On his political opposition:"They work like criminals at night painting numbers on walls. Under the innocent number 32, they hide their true aim, which is to destroy our constitutional liberties...
Standard: "Whatever doubts may exist about Comet I, there can be none about its successor . . . The aim must now be to speed production ... to ensure that as many as possible of these magnificent aircraft will be in service as soon as possible." Last week Britain found that doubts did exist about Comets II and III. De Havilland suspended all work on the new jets until it found the reason for the Comet I crashes...
McCarran Walter was written with the laudable object of codifying and unifying her hodgepodge of immigration laws that had existed in the United States since 1917. Equally laudable was the purported aim of clamping down on subversives entering under loopholes in the old statutes. But regardless, the law retains some of the most criticized aspects of former laws, and is accused of even expanding the objectionable provisions of the past through ambiguous, sometimes incomprehensible verbiage...
...After 100 years the university has come to the conclusion that the "Negro school" is obsolete. "The need today," says President Bond, "is far greater. It is worldwide understanding based on the concept of brotherhood. Nowhere is there a university designed and equipped [so well] to make this ambitious aim a reality...
...solution to the dam builders' growing financial problem: projects were so huge that few companies had the means or courage to tackle them since a single mistake might wipe them out. But in joint ventures, with many companies sharing costs and profits (or losses), construction men could aim at the moon...