Word: aimed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Eban said that his country's military aim was to forestall Egyptian threats to "grind Israel into the dust." The attack, Eban said, "was to eliminate the bases from which armed fedayeen units invade Israel for the purpose of murder, sabotage, and disruption of peaceful life...
...President Hill declared, "It is time that we should have in our country at least one institution thoroughly organized and amply endowed at which it shall be a principal aim to carry those students who have the highest talents to the highest degree of culture." For more than two centuries Harvard had been a small college. To be sure, by the early nineteenth century it had entered claim to the title "university" by establishing graduate study in medicine, law and divinity. Yet, in the middle of the last century, like the other colleges of the time, it was little more...
...plot, designed with the connivance of Prince' Bernhard's 72-year-old German mother, Princess Armgard, to force Queen Juliana off the throne. "Lies about the Queen's private life," said the man, "are being spread in a deliberate and nasty way with but one aim-to put Princess Beatrix [the eldest daughter of Juliana and Bernhard] on the throne, with her father and her paternal grandmother at her side." A quick check on the registration number of his automobile, said the Pictorial, revealed the man to be none other than Johann G. van Maasdijk, board chairman...
...level of state politics. The Democrat must pull the heartstrings with his pension plans and labor benefits, and the Republican has to do the same while covering his committments to the Associated Industries back in Swampscott for Swansea. But whatever their real beliefs, both Furcolo and Whittier must aim their pitches at the bulk of Massachusetts' voters, the second generation Americans who are just emerging from bondage in an urban slum...
...power began to force Wolverine mistakes. Michigan's Sophomore Fullback John Herrnstein tried a jump pass, was rushed and tossed the ball to an interception by Spartan Linebacker Arch Matsos. Minutes later, Spartan Captain Matsko, who had never kicked a field goal in his life, dropped back, took aim, and booted his team into a 3-0 lead...