Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Night of the Hunter. In Manitowoc, Wis., Rabbit Stalker Raphael Rusch was fined $100, agreed to pay $250 damages after he chased his target through the woods, lost it, took aim in a fit of pique, assassinated Farmer Arthur Wegner's horse...
...newest and handsomest fellowships in the arts and architecture field were announced last week in Chicago by the $5,000,000 Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Aim of the new foundation, which draws its funds from the estate of bigtime Chicago Builder Ernest Robert Graham, who died in 1936,* is to give artists, architects and critics of already proved ability a year off to work on special projects of their own choosing...
Eccentric Human Nature. He was the son of a stuffy, snobbish Royal Academician named William Collins, whose only aim in life was to climb to the top of the ladder, kicking off old friends at every rung. Wilkie rebelled violently against his father's way of life-particularly because the elder Collins always deemed his social climbing to be a form of Christian uplift. Consequently, Wilkie developed a lifelong aversion to religion, preferred low society to high, and liked to dress for dinner in camel's-hair coats and pink shirts. He was shortsighted and short of stature...
Then began a striking demonstration of the power of the popular will. Some business and professional men formed a Front for the Defense of the Constitution. Their aim was to oust Magloire, their weapon was the general strike. With whispers and chain letters they spread the word...
Pale Rider. In Orofino, Idaho, Elk Hunter Phil Ingram took aim, fired, dropped his quarry, later agreed to pay Farmer Homer Richardson $100 for the horse he blasted out from under...