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Word: aimed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Principal aim of Soviet foreign policy is "to lull the vigilance of the free world and to weaken its readiness to defend itself. Above all, they want to smash first the mighty, protective shield of NATO and to drive the U.S. from Europe so that Europe will fall like a ripe fruit into the Soviet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Moses, Strong As the Oak | 6/25/1956 | See Source »

...result will be increased involvement of the faculty with the students, a goal which the College should aim for in the coming years, he added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Finley, Monro Discuss College's Future Possibilities of Expansion | 6/14/1956 | See Source »

...discouraging incidents during this second year after the Supreme Court decision, there has been one outstanding event which embodies what we mean by gradualism and moderation: the Montgomery bus boycott. It was a local affair. Local leaders began it, for limited, local goals. It did not even aim at complete integration on busses; it merely sought the right for Negroes to sit in white sections during crowded hours. The NAACP here operated at its best: its local members were acting not as pawns of what appears to many Southerners as a dangerous outside organization, but as respectable citizens of Montgomery...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gradualism and The Negro | 6/14/1956 | See Source »

...calls presidential primaries, there have been many spectacular performances through the recent years. But seldom before have two candidates made as great a leap as Adlai Stevenson and Estes Kefauver tried last week from Florida, where the program called upon them to be "conservative," to California, where the aim was to be "liberal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRIMARIES: The Great Boz-Woz | 6/11/1956 | See Source »

Tiptoe Through the Tulips. In Trenton, N.J., the Medical Society of New Jersey advised middle-aged amateur gardeners to take it easy: "The aim is to dig flower beds, not graves; the result should be a summer of flowery pleasure, not an eternity of repose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 11, 1956 | 6/11/1956 | See Source »

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