Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Action [TIME, Sept. 17], kindly permit me [to say that] on my motion the Federation unanimously adopted a statement . . . specifying five irreconcilable differences between "Christianity and the atheistic Marxian Communism of our day." . . . [Such an action] leaves no basis for the suggestion implicit in your report that the real aim of the Federation is to "promote Karl Marx." The Federation's only objective is to promote Jesus Christ. ALBERT E. BARNETT Emory University...
...sprinkling of dove feathers. A fortnight ago Vladimir Semenov, Russian "political adviser" to the Soviet high commissioner in Berlin, returned from two weeks in Moscow. Next day he called a meeting of top Communists in East Berlin and gave them the word straight from headquarters: Russia's dominant aim now, more important even than Korea, is to prevent at all costs West Germany's rearmament and integration into the West defenses...
...Commons, we can resume that other argument." With that, fighting Nye addressed himself to the faults of Winston Churchill and the sins of the Tories. In the Arcadia cinema next door, Attlee murmured: "We may have our differences; we may have our disputes, but we all have the same aim . . . the brotherhood...
...late Mohandas Gandhi thus began a campaign of civil disobedience to the anti-Indian, anti-Negro laws of South Africa. Last month, Gandhi warned Prime Minister Daniel Malan that the government's apartheid policy "would drive one to Communism, whether one wishes it or not." His aim: to provoke arrest and go to prison, thus "seek to change the heart of the government by my self-imposed sufferings...
Even now, in what sounds like an echo from an old Greenwich Village bull session, he believes that "the whole aim of the gang that runs Russia, U.S.A., Britain and France is to destroy the contemplative life altogether." Short on formal education (he went to medical school straight from high school), he has tried to make a virtue of the literary amateurism that still keeps cropping up in the careless writing of Autobiography...