Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What was the shooting about? Lebanon's Moslem rebels, whose leaders shouted at the outset that their aim was simply to keep President Chamoun from changing the constitution and running for a second term, fought right on after the government pledged that Chamoun would step down when his six-year term ended in September. Chamoun, confident that he could always count on U.S. aid, refused to compromise further...
...Aim Ahead. The rocket for the first probe will be aimed about 40° ahead of the moon, like a hunter leading a duck. Its initial speed of 23,827 m.p.h. will bring it to the moon's vicinity in a little more than three days. If aimed correctly, it will cross the moon's orbit slightly ahead of the moon, moving comparatively slowly. In this region the moon's gravitational field is dominant. It will pull the probe around the moon and sling it back toward earth in a lopsided figure eight...
...Harry Ashmore, the Atlanta Constitution of Ralph McGill, the Greenville Delta Democrat-Times of Mississippi's Hodding Carter. But to many Southern intellectuals, the finest paper in the region is built not around a man, but on a moderate, conscientious approach to racial integration and the self-declared aim "to give the news impartially, without fear or favor." The paper: the Chattanooga Daily Times...
Pleased: None. It was a selection that pleased none. As soon as the choices were announced (and before they were seen), critical guns took aim from the whole perimeter of opinion. Cried New York Herald Tribune Art Critic Emily Genauer: "Our exhibits will indeed be a scandal." Her objections centered on the absence of traditional painters, and the emphasis on abstraction. The New York Daily News predicted an "atrocity," called for reinforcements from Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, Maxfield Parrish and Norman Rockwell...
...Joint Economic Committee of Congress to examine the question: can the U.S. achieve maximum (or full) employment as laid down in the Employment Act of 1946 and at the same time achieve stable prices? The economists' answer: No. Said University of Michigan Economist Gardner Ackley: "We cannot aim at absolutely full employment, or even 98% employment, unless we are willing to accept considerable inflation...