Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Administration's prestige squarely behind continued foreign aid and took aim on those in and out of Congress who sneer at aid as a "giveaway." Snapped he: "We cannot afford to have one of our most essential security programs shot down with a slogan...
...tune with the vaguely socialist ideology of most Afro-Asians than are U.S. aid administrators in their attempts to promote free enterprise. Needing raw materials and food that the underdeveloped countries produce, the Russians can profitably make barter deals that the U.S. has no use for. Their apparent aim is to achieve a reputation for disinterestedness, their hope that eventually the underdeveloped countries will look to them for leadership and help. The economic bridgeheads, once established, can be expanded into an economic dependence that can eventually bind a country as firmly into the Communist orbit as any political pledge...
...basement of Harvard's School of Dental Medicine, Biochemist James H. Shaw and his assistants worked for more than ten years with cages full of white rats and cotton rats, with sugar-rich and sugar-free chow, with test tubes and dissecting boards. The twofold aim: to find out how certain sugars promote tooth decay, then to find a way to forestall it. The Sugar Research Foundation, Inc., set up by the sugar industry, bankrolled the project for a total of $57,000. Now, in the Journal of the American Dental Association, Dr. Shaw reports his findings...
...roamed." Getting down to the real business of the meeting, an Indian delegate attacked the NATO summit meeting as "a clear indication of the design of the imperialist powers to interfere in Afro-Asian affairs." Briskly following up that lead, Japan's Professor Kaoru Yasui warned that the aim of Britain and the U.S. was "to explode atom and hydrogen bombs over the heads of the colored race...
Lauro's resignation has long been the aim of the Democratic Christian national government in Rome. Last week Minister of the Interior Fernando Tambroni railed against the staggering Naples deficit ($50 million for this year) and the graft, corruption and chaos of Lauro's open-handed administration. Naples' local Communists enthusiastically backed Tambroni's charges-they cannot match the effectiveness of Lauro's electioneering techniques, which include the distribution of thousands of left-foot shoes to voters with the promise of the other shoe "when you vote right...