Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Obviously, with the boss himself shooting blows at Paul Douglas, the Senator from Illinois was fair game for the rest of the Administration. Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer took aim at him with a peashooter...
Then what was the governor of New York doing way out there in the Far East, on a 45-day, 29,000-mile private tour? * "My chief aim in life now," the governor told the assembled officers, "is to keep my party on the straight road to internationalism...I feel that some of the leaders of my party are thinking along the lines of the isolationists. That thinking must be discarded if the Republican Party is ever to rise to power...
This summer's conference has been under the joint sponsorship of the Summer School and the Cooperative Program in Educational Administration, which is working under a $3,000,000 grant from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation. The long-range aim of the Cooperative Program, which is to run for another four years, is to develop more effective administration of public schools by having school superintendents work with social psychologists, sociologists, and political scientists...
Plans for Central Park were laid just a century ago. Olmsted spent most of the rest of his life making the dream come true. His aim was "to complement. . . the beauty of the town [with] the beauty of the fields, the meadow, the prairie, of the green pastures and still waters." It was not easy. The region chosen for the park was an unsightly swamp laced with bald rock ridges and pimpled with squatters' shacks. To see it whole and make it new required optimism and an unwavering mind...
Died. Ashton Stevens, 78, dean of American theater critics, for 54 years a drama man for Hearst newspapers in New York, San Francisco and Chicago (40 years on the Herald-American and predecessors); of a coronary occlusion; in Chicago. A mild-mannered, rarely caustic critic, he once defined his aim: "To be right if possible; to be read, if possibler...