Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quivered as they set off their counterbattery fire. But the reckless fury of their salvos proved that Joe McCarthy stood pinpointed as never before in his public life. Nobody was challenging his rights as a Senator. Nobody was attacking his license to hunt Communists. But the Army, in taking aim, could not have been more menacing. It had drawn a careful bead on the one-man subcommittee's real brain, the precocious, brilliant, arrogant young man whom McCarthy had come to regard as indispensable-"as indispensable." said Joe, "as I am." And Roy Cohn, thanks to a lifetime process...
...face of this situation, Crosby launched Operation Honesty. Its aim: to persuade citizens to file full, honest reports of all personal property. If all did so, real-estate taxes could...
...position, i.e., conductorship of Spain's National Orchestra, Argenta composed a second declaration. He was distressed. He apologized. He humbly affirmed that he was a musician and no writer. Perhaps, he explained, this accounted for the fact that he wrote something he really did not mean. His only aim had been to push and incite Spain's composers towards better production. Moreover, he had always been a convinced Falangist who "owes his personal peace, the peace of his family and the peace of his country to Franco and the Falangist movement." Concluded Argenta: "Far be it from...
...interceptors. Airwise rumor is that it is genuinely supersonic, i.e., flies above the speed of sound in level flight. It is packed with educated electronics. In combat, the airplane will probably do most of its own thinking, the pilot sitting passively while radars and other gadgets locate their prey, aim and fire the guns or other armament. Then he will return the spent airplane to its base...
...combining the Applied Science program with its general aim of assuring a liberal education to all students, the College hopes to compete more successfully with specialized engineering schools. Under previous distribution requirements, students concentrating in Applied Science could not enroll in as many undergraduate courses in engineering as students in other universities...