Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...marshes near Sicily's town of Marsala, Hunter Paolo Lamia took aim, shot down a black-plumed, white-breasted stilt plover, a breed seldom seen in Italy, which migrates each fall from Arctic Siberia to North Africa. On the bird's right leg Lamia found a glass vial containing a message, written in Italian with scrawled capital letters on both sides of an eight-inch strip of paper. On orders of the Ministry of the Interior, the paper was painstakingly analyzed, determined to be of Russian manufacture. The message: "Many messages but no hope. For 13 years...
With this aim in mind, Putzi excitedly told Adolf about the hypnotic effect of college cheering sections at U.S. football games and, at the piano, demonstrated the "buoyant beat" of U.S. brass bands. Recalls Putzi: "I had Hitler fairly shouting with enthusiasm. 'That's it, Hanfstaengl, that is what we need for the movement, marvelous,' and he pranced up and down the room like a drum majorette." The "Rah, rah, rah!" refrain of Harvardmen, by Putzi's account, became the thunderous "Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil!" of the Brownshirt demonstrations. Storm Trooper bands blared their goose-step...
...idea, announced at the beginning of his speech: President Eisenhower would soon take to the road to deliver a series of television speeches discussing the U.S. economy, the national defense program and efforts toward greater scientific achievement. The aim: to re-emphasize his "beliefs and determinations," to reassert his leadership and to re-establish the nation's confidence in itself...
...most of them, home now means the United States. One of them sums up their feeling: "I find that this is a country where one's aim of life can be realized, where nothing impedes your facilities, and where the individual can realize his dream. The United States means a happy future," he concludes, putting his feet on the table
When at the middle or end of his second year the student looks ahead, all is equally dark. What are the general examinations like, what are they meant to cover, and what do they aim at? How long should he try to prepare for these ill-defined and sprawling areas? And once that Scylla is somehow desperately skirted, what of the Charybdis of the thesis? So many questions arise here that it is no wonder that only one solution seems at all sure; make the thesis a long one, cram it with learned footnotes and keep your own feelings...