Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...should make students consider their plans and talk them over with their advisers and tutors, claim the officials. On the incorrect assumption that bureaucrats want what they ask for, students frequently produce the study card but neglect the planning and discussion. Tutors aid the subversion of the card's aim by signing whatever tutees push at them, sometimes even blank study cards, without questions...
...Fella (based on Sidney Howard's They Knew What They Wanted; book, lyrics and music by Frank Loesser) is Frank Loesser's first Broadway show since Guys and Dolls. In style more like an opera than a straight Broadway show, it achieves opera's invariable prime aim: its music stands splendidly foremost. In Broadway terms, The Most Happy Fella boasts an exuberantly rich and varied score that ranges from perky show tunes and bright snatches flung over the shoulder to full-throated romantic duets and choruses that flood the theater...
Says Ibáñez, who has two years left in his term: "Now if the parties continue to give me their support, as I believe they will, we will go ahead until we reach our final aim: total recovery of my country...
Crucified. Promising that he would call Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson on his Senate Agriculture Committee carpet within 48 hours, Louisiana's Allen Ellender nonetheless took direct aim at Eisenhower. "The choice was the President's," cried Ellender. "He has chosen to let our farm population dangle at the end of Secretary Benson's flexible noose." Oklahoma's Senator Robert Kerr supplied the oratorical topper: "From his ivory tower at the Augusta country club, where he has been completely insulated from the voice of the people, the President has again acted on the advice of little...
...much for the known facts. What idea drives these manic bell-ringers? This is a more difficult question. Their aim in organizing is, according to their constitution, "to improve the quality of performance." This, of course, would be silly, as anyone with ears knows. The performance on the Lowell House bells is, currently, of good quality. This pale excuse conceals their real aim--noise: more...