Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eisenhower Administration's lexicon to say that "moderation is the spirit of the times." Within 18 hours after Candidate Stevenson uttered the word, New York's Governor Averell Harriman, one of the faster-moving inactive candidates, called a press conference in Chicago, hammered the desk and took aim squarely at Adlai Stevenson. Said Harriman: "The word 'moderation' is not in the Democratic dictionary. It seems to me you fall into the Republican vernacular when you talk about moderate and middle of the road. The Democratic Party is not moderately for labor, not moderately for the small...
...once told an art student: "If you are not skillful enough to sketch a man jumping out of a window in the time it takes him to fall from the fourth story to the ground, you will never be able to produce great works." Delacroix's aim, as his friend French Poet Charles Baudelaire put it more precisely, was "to execute quickly enough and with sufficient sureness so as not to allow any element in the intensity of an act or idea to be lost." To this end Delacroix worked continually to perfect his drawing, at his death left...
...charges against the Commission's membership are true, it can do much to mitigate the present confusion about security in the Federal service. There are many abuses in the present loyalty program which make it difficult, if not impossible, for the program to achieve its dual aim: insuring complete loyalty within the Civil Service while protecting the reputations of innocent employees...
...Governor Lawrence Wetherby. U.S. Senator Earle Clements and Patriarch Alben Barkley. Although after the primary, Wetherby. Clements and Barkley faithfully swung in behind Nominee Chandler, the unkind cuts are not healed. Now that he has won. Chandler is expected to get right to work on his primary-announced aim to select a candidate who will beat Clements in next year's primary...
...aim of the A.D.A. in the coming election year, according to Schlesinger, will be to serve as a rallying point for the independent and the liberal elements in the state. The former group, he estimated, comprises about one third of the Massachusetts voters...