Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this was their primary aim, they had -up to this week-signally not succeeded. But the threat was there and would be there until U.S. reinforcements (which began to land in Korea this week) were in position. Knowing the threat, and sick & tired of retreat, Lieut. General Walton Walker called his division commanders together, gave them a stern order: their troops must hold their lines or die where they stood...
...When her aim was a bit wide of a note, she just bobbed around until she fit on one she liked. By the time she had glided and wavered through some of her biggest hits, the crowd had gone happily...
...what soft spot would the probing finger of Communist aggression aim its next jab? Western observers have long feared that one of the likeliest targets would be Russia's neighbor, Iran, a backward land perched precariously on the U.S.S.R.'s Middle-Eastern doorstep. Iran has been wallowing in an economic and political swamp for decades. A well-nigh endless series of footling governments has done little to help...
Adenauer, like U.S. policymakers, argued for a limited but possible aim: Schumacher talked himself into the position of wanting all or nothing. After heated debate, the Bonn Assembly sided with Adenauer, voted 220-152 to join the Council. Said Konrad Adenauer exultantly, "Germany's road to Europe is now open." Wrote French High Commissioner Andre François-Poncet in a letter to Adenauer: "I am convinced [this step] will have as favorable results for your country as for the cause of solidarity among the European nations...
McCleery has some doubts that he will be able to duplicate the impact of The Lottery on any of his remaining shows. "Just like everyone else," he says, "we have trouble getting good scripts. All the wealth of NBC couldn't get me 18 good shows." His aim is "to show we can do things of delicacy and violence by using the arena theater in television. Isn't that enough for a starter...