Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...parlour game is sweeping England ... It is called "Monotony" and is appropriate to our times. It appears to be based on Monopoly, a game [in] which . . . each player's object was to acquire the private ownership of . . . house property, and so forth. In Monotony the aim is to nationalise everything...
...inaugural address, former history professor Griswold dwelt mostly on his favorite theme--that society owes to each individual the fullest amount of education he is capable of absorbing. The aim of such education is not just intellection competence but rather the preparation of people as responsible citizens...
Whodunit Author John Dickson Carr (alias Carter Dickson), master of the murder in a locked room, took deadly aim at Whodunit Writer Raymond (The Big Sleep) Chandler, who specializes in hard-boiled detectives and publicly hoots at his clue-scattering colleagues (TIME, April 24). In a New York Times review of Chandler's The Simple Art of Murder, Carr wrote: "If, to some restraint, he could add the fatigue of construction and clues . . . then one day he may write a good novel...
...then the President began hearing new complaints. It was Johnson, he heard, who had leaked confidential statements and afterwards blandly denied making them. It was that man Louis, trying to build his own empire, who had taken aim on Secretary of State Dean Acheson, publicly praising him, privately slurring him, lambasting Acheson's Asian policy to the point where the feud was threatening all the nation's international policies...
Across the Naktong. In the U.N. beachhead around Pusan, General Walton Walker's Eighth Army (four U.S. divisions, five South Korean divisions and a British brigade) went over to a general offensive. The aim was to break the enemy ring and link up with the U.N. forces fighting their way east from Inchon. Initial advances along the 120-mile perimeter were spotty. Nevertheless, at week's end Walker's men had established bridgeheads on the west bank of the Naktong...