Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...calls for "continuous and effective self-help and mutual aid," establishes a Pacific council of foreign ministers to implement the plan. By its terms the three nations declare "their sense of unity, so that no potential aggressor will be under the illusion that any of them stands alone." Eventual aim: to bring all friendly Pacific nations into 'a NATO-like Pacific pact...
...nothing to do with the President's words, rose up. Harry Truman ignored the noise and plodded on, making no-attempt at oratory, never gesturing, rarely raising his eyes from his brown leather notebook. He sought to establish a historical precedent for his limited-war policy: "Our aims in Korea are just as clear and just as simple as the things for which we fought in the American Revolution. We did not fight that war to drive the British out of the North American continent ... to destroy the military power of England, or to wipe out the British Empire...
...booming drive and a well-placed approach shot left him 40 ft. from the pin on the 483-yd. first hole (par five). Burkemo, also well-placed, was in line for a birdie. He got it, too. Then Snead, taking dead aim from the fringe of the green, chipped into the cup for an eagle three. "After that start," said Snead in his corn-pone drawl, "ah thought unless Burkemo goes hawg wile, ah'd be O.K. Ah thought if a man can't win six up he oughta quit and go home." Sam won seven...
...High Aims. The man who had arranged the introduction and done a good deal of the moving was John Christie, 68, owner of the estate and founder of the festival. Christie, a former science master at Eton, inherited his family's fortune ($1,329,000 and 10,000 acres in Sussex and Devonshire) after World War I. Although he plays no instrument himself, Christie is an ardent music lover. In 1931 he married a pretty young singer named Audrey Mildmay, and for her built the perfect miniature opera house on his estate. Christie already had an international festival...
...human lot. Stretched to the breaking point, they dominate more space than they fill, and this is their sole dignity. But Giacometti's own dignity and sincerity go unquestioned in Paris. His artist-friends generally revere him, spend long nights debating his methods as well as his elusive aim...