Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expose such wrongdoing is one aim of the McClellan committee. But much more important is the committee's responsibility for finding legislative methods of punishment and prevention. Indeed, the health of the whole U.S. economy may depend on the work of the committee, for, as McClellan says, "if left alone, unchecked and unrestrained, with the momentum it has already gained, we could be heading for a gangsterism economy in America. This must not occur...
...patter of little feet...in the near distance" and that they are thirteen percent directed by "libidinous impulses, another word for raw sex." This sort of childishness suggests that the Yearbookmen are not really quite sure for whom they are writing. Indeed, it is a problem whether they should aim at the Senior or at Mother. But in either case, the Yearbook ought to be able to assume that its readership includes neither the feeble nor the aged...
...remember rightly," Orwell wrote, "the first five men I saw wounded in Spain were all wounded by our own weapons." The pass-words were of such an elevating and revolutionary nature that the illiterate sentries usually forgot them and got shot at, escaping only thanks to the consistently poor aim of their comrades...
...there have been more than 150 Junior Fellows. Each is picked for his "promise of notable contribution to knowledge and thought" by a group of ten Senior Fellows (members of the Faculty) who comprise the governing board of the Society. The chief aim of the Society is to give the Junior Fellows three years of freedom to study whatever (and whenever) they please, and to provide reciprocal stimulation by bringing the members together at thrice-weekly meals. The stipend attached to a Junior Fellowship is extremely generous, the requirements connected with it practically...
Revenge will be one motive today, but a more important one is a chance at the Crimson's first E.I.B.L. crown in 18 years, and a victory today seems necessary for that aim, since two Yale defeats appear highly improbable...