Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since Reconstruction, the Democratic South has been the solidest political rock in the U.S. Crushed beneath the rock, the Southern Republican Party has been little more than a collection of private clubs largely run by hard-shelled political opportunists with one aim in mind: to keep the party small so they could control it and reap the patronage rewards in the years when the G.O.P. was in power in Washington. Last year, the Eisenhower landslide ripped wide cracks in the Democratic rock. The biggest political news in the U.S. this week is that a new kind of Republican Party...
...other hand, Catholics have let modern science usurp "the central governing virtue of Christian life. To it belongs, by right, the spirit of critical investigation, of discovery, invention and experimentation, whether our aim at the time is to know something, to make something, or to do something...
...Distant Aim. This week both Nixon and Knowland were planning trips through the Far East. Departing early in October, the grocer's son will go as the representative of the President, surrounded by protocol, ceremony, official conferences and social events. Departing late in August, the wealthy publisher-politician's "son will go on his own, at his own expense, without much benefit of protocol or pomp...
From now on, increasing competition between Californians Nixon and Knowland seems inevitable. The immediate, specific political aims of each are 1) to be higher than the other in the esteem of President Eisenhower, and 2) to control the California delegation to the Republican National Convention in 1956. But there is another aim in the distance. Neither Nixon nor Knowland has to stretch his imagination far to see the White House in his future. One of them may well make it. There is no chance that both of them will. That is the real seed and soil of the conflict...
...philosopher almost by accident. He started out to be an engineer, had already enrolled at Iowa State College as "the cheapest possible place to get an education." Then, one day in the college library, he began reading the works of William James. "Right then," says he, "I decided to aim for the place where James taught...