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Word: aimed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ants into our quarry swimming hole. After a few preliminary struggles to orient themselves to the nearest shore, they would squirt a jet of formic acid from a convenient rear port and be shot six or eight inches nearer safety. Not being streamlined (and rudderless), these insects would re-aim and repeat the process until they were able to scramble out. Perhaps our Western ants are just smarter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 25, 1950 | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

March: Lily had a heifer and I named it Designer Aim Rosette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARM'ERS: Diary | 9/18/1950 | See Source »

...country is intended to take. That can only be done if the Bonn government begins to move to Berlin. Then the whole world would understand that Bonn had taken title to all of Germany, that it spoke and acted with a claim to the Germans in the East. The aim would be to get the Soviets to withdraw, with some face-saving gesture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Last Call for Europe | 9/18/1950 | See Source »

Continued Chang: "The people of Korea are grateful for the courageous and self-sacrificing support of the free nations ". . ." Then he stated his government's war aim: the right to administer both South and North Korea until free elections could be held throughout the land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Out of the Stall | 9/11/1950 | See Source »

Spaulding, like the other delegates, did not want Negro businessmen to aim only at the Negro market; they should aim at a broader market, and compete, not on a racial basis, but as businessmen. Spaulding himself had proved that that could be done, when he opened a bank 41 years ago in the white business section of Durham, N.C. "Some people," he recalled, "said to me: 'You had better get out of there; they won't let you stay there . . .' We have been there ever since, and our relations with the white businessmen have been fine. About...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONVENTIONS: We Must Be on Our Own | 9/11/1950 | See Source »

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