Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...oldest man ever to serve in Congress, Rhode Island's peppy Democratic Senator Theodore Francis Green, turned 90, reaffirmed his aim to be re-elected in 1960 (he would be 99 on completion of that term), prepared to hop off this week on a tour of northern NATOland. Globetrotting Bachelor Green also swapped wired congratulations with a younger whippersnapper from Arizona who turned 80 the same day: Democratic Senator Carl Hayden, who has served longer than anyone else in Congress (he entered the House in 1912 as a youngster of 34). At a birthday whoopdedoo in Phoenix, Hayden...
...voted in Congress for a watered-down civil rights bill on which both North and South could agree. Chief architect and proud father of the compromise was Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson of Texas, who last week drew the venom of Fair Dealing Columnist Tom Stokes: "It was his aim to get a bill weak enough to keep his Southern colleagues from staging one of those filibusters that show the most nauseating side of the Dixie element that controls the Democratic Party in Congress ... a fraud." Eisenhower Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell, speaking to a Maine audience last week...
...nation World Bank and International Monetary Fund. "In all our lands," said the President, "there is a surging confidence that steady economic growth can be a reality-that the good things of life can be made available in a growing stream to all our peoples." But to achieve this aim, nations must foster stability as well as growth, i.e., they must combat the "worldwide phenomenon" of inflation...
...formal grammatical trappings that so often weigh down language instruction have been shorn away at Cornell. The aim is to teach the student a language not by making him analyze it, but by placing him, as far as possible, in an environment dominated by that language so that he may assimilate it almost unconsciously, much as he did with his native language as a child...
...suggestions aim to provide "a more informed Council before the meetings," Council president Larry R. Johnson '58 said last night. The resolutions in effect give the Council's executive committee the responsibility for making policies and leave the rest of the Council the choice of approving or rejecting them. In the past, the whole Council has generally decided matters as a group...