Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Counts, professor emeritus of education at Teachers College, Columbia University, followed by mentioning the goals of Soviet education and the American lack of knowledge toward communism. He said that the Soviets aim to reeducate the people entirely, through an all-inclusive state-control system...
...pledge to go ahead with a cessation of atomic tests, but at the same time weighing the possible loss to mankind of losing the peaceful knowledge which such tests might bring." It was an impression of confusion, too, but it left no confusion about Ike's basic aim of making the famed U.S. atom do the best by the world in the long run that it can possibly...
Kennedy acknowledged that his aim was to wake up the world to the Algerian situation. But his cannon cracker had done more than that. By sorely annoying the hard-pressed French and pushing the State Department into a position that sorely annoyed Africans and Asians, it seemed to have been all bang and no benefit...
Indeed, the general aim is to transport the audience back to the late 17th century as fully as possible. The outdoor theatre at Wellesley serves well as a part of the Versailles gardens where such court plays were often presented. The show properly begins with the traditional trois coups de baton. And the audience is made to rise at the start while King Louis himself and his retinue march in to solemn music, take their places, and hear Moliere dedicate the performance to His Gracious Majesty...
...English translation used is adequate on the whole. One minor quibble, however: since the aim is to capture as Gallic a spirit as possible, why do they doggedly insist on talking of guineas, pounds, shillings and pence instead of louis d'or, livres, sols, deniers, pistoles and francs...