Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...says the Kogi man's aversion to sex stems from a cult of love for a world-mother spirit. Kogis think life is only a larger womb than the one from which they sprang, and death only a return to the womb of the great All-Mother. Their aim is to put themselves "in balance" with the All-Mother-mostly by idleness in the uterine universe...
...crowd roared. Then Ike continued: "Much more than this, it is our aim to give to our country a program of progressive policies drawn from our finest Republican traditions; to unite us wherever we have been divided; to strengthen freedom wherever among any group it has been weakened; to build a sure foundation for sound prosperity for all here at home, and for a just and sure peace throughout our world . . . The road that leads to Nov. 4 is a fighting road. In that fight I will keep nothing in reserve...
Later in the week, he drove to Charlottesville for a meeting with the Virginia delegation. At the University of Virginia's Institute of Public Affairs, he gave a major recapitulation of his foreign policy and made some thought-provoking points. The aim of U.S. foreign policy, said Taft, should be "to assure the continued peace of the American people as long as that is consistent with liberty." It should not undertake "organized charity throughout the world . . . We should help when emergencies exist . . . [But] today I believe we have come to a point where there is no longer any justification...
Between delegates' visits, Eisenhower found time to have his eyes examined, chat with an old West Point gym trainer, meet the trustees of Columbia University (they extended his leave as president indefinitely) and talk to Republican Statesman John Foster Dulles. Dulles' aim, he said, is a foreign policy plank both Ike and Taft can agree on. Asked whether he was for Ike, Dulles smiled and said: "I haven't made any public decision." Asked if he thought the two factions could agree, Dulles made a somewhat circular pronouncement: "If they do not agree, the party will...
...current athletic scandals, some fear, could bring a reaction against athletes of an extreme sort: after the decade of 1910-20 for example, the University actually discriminated against athletes. On the other hand, others fear that adverse fortunes on the football field might lead to recruiting with a single aim in mind Given three choices abandoning intercollegiate football, as Chicago did, converting to a professional beef trust, or maintaining an amateur policy--the University has chosen the middle course. It will continue the attempt to attract the scholar-athlete, although this attempt may already have been made futile...