Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ultimate aim of the Union of South Africa's racial policy is the co-existence of two separate major nations, the white and the Bantu, Wentzel C. DuPlessis, Ambassador from South Africa, said last night in an address to the Law School Forum...
...late summer of 1955 Britain called a conference with the aim of improving, in some fashion, this rapidly worsening situation. She invited Greece and herself--and, most important, Turkey. Turkey, one could say, has a legitimate interest in Cyprus, since the island lies within sight of her southeastern shore and since one-fifth of the Cypriot populace is Turkish; but the government in Ankara had, to this point, been quite nonchalant about the whole affair. Confronting Greece with Turkey was like waving a red flag in front of a bull. In no time at all the struggle for Cyprus...
...balance the fiscal-1960 budget, which the President will submit to the new Congress in January. It is a goal that might have to be discarded as irrelevant if the U.S. has to use force to preserve the West's outpost of freedom in Berlin. But meanwhile, the aim of combatting inflation and governmental bloat by balancing the budget is highly relevant to a challenge that confronts the U.S. in the middle of the 20th century: remaining loyal to sound governmental goals and principles while having to cope for years on end with a chronic crisis that is neither...
...better than a cloture rule allowing the Senate to cut off debate by a simple majority vote. Against that, Georgia's Richard Russell, strategic leader of the filibuster forces, and Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, even while admitting last week that a change in Rule XXII is probably inevitable, aim at holding it to a near-meaningless minimum. From the battle that will begin next Jan. 7 between those two positions may come a rule allowing Senators to talk lengthily-but not forever...
Inching ahead with almost leisurely menace, Nikita Khrushchev built up pressure on the Allied position in West Berlin. But his real aim, it became clearer, was to force Western recognition of his servile East German satellite regime...