Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...audience of 2,500 in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, Eisenhower, erect and spruce in white tie & tails, began by analyzing Joseph Stalin's recent pronouncement on the state of world Communism (TIME, Oct. 13). The destruction of "imperialism" (i.e., the democratic powers) is still the stated aim of Stalin. The purposes of Soviet policy, said Eisenhower, always remain the same: only the "plan for action is always undergoing revision." What is the current plan? Having brought 800 million people under its sway (up from 190 million only a few years ago), the Soviet Union now hopes that...
...practicing analyst in Baltimore. He has a horror of conformity. The idea that each man must adjust himself to the mass of his fellows means slavery, he cries: "Partisans of causes, criers of ideologies, makers of philosophies and servitors of religion ... all of them aim, by exploiting the adjustment fallacy, to enslave...
...Clasby yesterday, trying to improve Clasby's already fine punting. Fenton, a fine kicker himself, who has coached over 900 kickers, is helping Clasby as an advisor. They worked at "coffin corner" kicking yesterday, with Fenton setting up two flags at the goal line for the Natick star to aim...
Cold War. "Our aim ... is not conquest of territory or subjugation by force. Our aim is more subtle, more pervasive, more complete. We are trying to get the world by peaceful means to believe the truth . . . The means we shall employ . . . are often called 'psychological.' Don't be afraid of that term just because it's a five-dollar, five-syllable word. 'Psychological warfare' is the struggle for the minds and wills of men. Many people think [it] means just the use of propaganda . . . But [that] is not the most important part in this...
Shoddy Job. Unfortunately, says Bell, the modern school is of no help in providing the answer, for the school is actually contributing mightily to the current cult of childishness. Once, the school's aim may have been to "turn out men and women who could think, confident that those who were trained to think could be trusted on their own to look after problems of adjustment, individual and social; but the more modern schools go on the theory that it is their business themselves to bring about such adjustments, only secondarily to concern themselves with developing pupils...