Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Toad's Mockery. In The Wind in the Willows (newly reissued by Scribner, with illustrations by Ernest Shepard; $2.50), Grahame deals with sensible animals whose aim is to enjoy life to the full. Mr. Rat, who lives in a well-furnished hole in the riverbank, is just like any middle-class bachelor with a riverside bungalow-except that he is sensible enough to spend his days boating instead of in an office. And his friend Mole is the same kind of fellow...
...three-year-old daughter into a white playground in Washington. The other four cases before the court, from South Carolina, Virginia, Delaware and Kansas, were brought about in much the same manner by the N.A.A.C.P. The legal technicalities in the lawsuits differ somewhat from case to case,* but the aim is the same: mixed schools...
...force is short of desired strength, and its increase by some 1,300 planes-to well over 5,600 planes-should be NATO's principal aim...
...mobilization for the Democrats' broad base approach. Since then, however, it has become clear that the Republicans, like the Democrats, want the underlying mobilization base for a possible M-day to be broad and, where possible, to limit immediate defense production to primary suppliers. Because the big aim is to get ready for a war that might come tomorrow or 20 years from now, the plan is to substitute, where practicable, production capacity for the stockpiling.of items that might be obsolete by the time war is declared. How far along this road to preparedness is U.S. industry...
...Farcical History of Richard Greenow, a brilliant young man is possessed of a sister personality. When he isn't functioning as himself, Richard Greenow, a fighting pacifist, he is operating as Pearl Bellairs, a violently patriotic war propagandist-all of which permits Author Huxley to aim his wit at two political extremes and much that is in between...