Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proposal was unveiled, with a certain unconscious appropriateness, on April 1, and it actually amounted to this: 1) the U.S. would join a Kremlin-organized coalition conceived with the ultimate aim of pushing the U.S. out of Europe, while 2) Russia would contribute armed forces and help plot the strategy of the grand Western alliance that was created only to stand off the armed forces of Russia...
...Usual Aim. Like so many of the ostensibly clumsy swipes which Vyacheslav Molotov makes with his diplomatic hammer & sickle, this one had a method, and a danger to it. In a week when many of the U.S.'s allies seemed politically mesmerized by the mushrooming cloud of the thermonuclear bomb (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Molotov adroitly played on man's justified concern over the power he now holds in his arsenals: "There can be no doubt that the employment of atomic and hydrogen weapons in a war . . . would mean the wholesale annihilation of civilians and the destruction...
...Many of the controls imposed by the Laborites were forced by shortages which would have driven Tories to the same restrictions; and many of Butler's concessions would have been made by a Socialist Chancellor as the shortages disappeared. But there is an important difference of spirit and aim...
...Commonwealth. I believe it has resources which will make your eyes pop out. But this is 1954, not 1904. Australia, Canada, South Africa will not be denied association with the U.S. dollar, and on their own terms. We are dealing with a Commonwealth in modern dress." The aim, says Butler, "is to break outwards, to sell more, and thereby to import more-to enlarge the circle rather than contracting a vicious circle...
...economists at Princeton argued that U.S. trade policy should not aim at merely bringing U.S. imports into a statistical balance with exports. It should aim at an import level high enough to enable other nations to pay for vastly increased U.S. exports. In short, as the economists saw it, the Randall Report aimed...