Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...herculean overnight cleanup job, Belgium's tall, shy King Baudouin, 27, formally opened the first world's fair anywhere since New York's in 1939. Under grey skies and an umbrella of 50 Belgian air force jets, the bespectacled Baudouin proclaimed in French and Flemish: "The aim of this World's Fair is to create an atmosphere of understanding and peace...
...aim of the seminars will be to supplement work in the regular courses," Firth explained. He added that "there is a certain stimulation derived from discussing philosophy in a group...
Another poetry course, English 284, "Platonism in English Poetry," is scheduled for the fall to be taught by Ivor A. Richards, University Professor. Its aim will be to "compare the impact achieved by translations of Plato and poetical works expressing the same idea...
...government or out. Taking advantage of this, India's Communists volunteered their way into the vacuum. Keenly recalling the national obloquy they earned by trying armed revolt in 1948, the Communists have set out to establish themselves as the chief "democratic alternative" to the Congress Party. Their professed aim is to climb to power peacefully, capturing India "seat by seat and state by state." Careful not to make direct attacks on popular Jawaharlal Nehru, the Communists portray him as the lone healthy voice in his own party, piously urge him to cleanse Congress Party ranks of anti-socialists...
...racial segregation] into every possible sphere." At the opposition United Party, which draws its support largely from South Africa's 1,200,000 citizens of British descent, Strijdom leveled a deadly charge: "They are imperialists more concerned with British interests and prestige than South Africa's. Our aim is to make South Africa a free republic...