Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Association of German Soldiers has defined its aim as a free and united Germany in a free and united Europe. But "veterans must and will clarify conditions under which they will again have to put their lives at stake . . . We are ready to extend a hand to all soldiers of the free world...
...Will Rogers. There's more poor men than rich men so I have a chance of lasting a long, long time . . . Over in Hollywood, everything gets exaggerated, including people's ideas of themselves. We live in New York. People there are normal-sized. We aim eventually just to live in oblivion and get to the grave without confusion . . . I'm a sad man. I've been leading mourner at the death of more jokes than any man alive...
Lace on Her Petticoat (by Aimée Stuart; produced by Herman Shumlin) is a garrulous trifle from England about Victorian existence in Scotland. Harking back to the days of ironclad class distinctions and almost exultant snobbery, it chronicles the brief, foredoomed friendship that springs up between little Alexandra Carmichael, whose mother is a marchioness, and little Elspeth McNairn, whose widowed mother makes the marchioness' hats. Mrs. McNairn herself is courted by a workingman who drinks tea with his spoon in his cup; but though his spoon is in the wrong place, his heart is in the right...
...Methodist Federation for Social Action is a small (membership: 4,000), unofficial organization of bishops, ministers and laymen founded 43 years ago "to promote social action in the spirit of Jesus." Many a distressed Methodist has come to think that its real aim is to promote Karl Marx. The Un-American Activities Committee has used a short, ugly name for the federation: tool of the Communist Party. Last week, under the severest accumulated criticism in federation history, 56 of the 4,000 members turned up for the annual meeting in Evanston, Ill. Main question: Should they save, or sack...
...white South Africans, long confident of their ability to rule over five times their number of blacks, the blacks have suddenly become a major internal foe. This is the real basis of the Nationalist government's policy of apartheid (apartness). A Nationalist frankly told me: "We aim to segregate them completely, living as far away from us as possible...