Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...every sense, a revival meeting. Gathered in quaint old Webster Hall, a onetime Greenwich Village ball room, were 1,000 delegates and ob servers attending the first open con gress held by the U.S. Communist Party in seven years. The Reds' aim during the five-day conference was to rebuild their fading cause by publicly exploiting the country's antiwar, civil rights and allied New Left movements...
...week Hispanic holiday was intended, after all, as a serious exploration, a college graduation gift from her parents. As History Major Lynda told newsmen on arrival, her aim was "to get to know your country." To this end, Ambassador Duke's pretty wife Robin shepherded her on visits to Madrid's Royal Palace, the Alcazar in Toledo, the palace and mausoleum at Escorial. Wherever she went, the President's daughter displayed unflagging curiosity. Didn't King Philip II have four wives? Why wasn't Philip V buried at Escorial? How come Isabel...
...beginning of new relations toward relaxation, harmony and cooperation with the East European states. Paris, in talking of this to the East, necessarily addresses itself to Moscow. The re-establishment of Europe into a fertile whole, instead of being paralyzed by a sterile division, remains France's primary aim. Thus, the understanding between hitherto antagonistic states is above all, according to the French, a European problem." Next morning, in political talks with Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev, De Gaulle learned that French "understanding" is not the same as Russian...
Last week Labor's rebels took organized aim at their leader with a party motion condemning Wilson's decision to maintain Britain's east-of-Suez defense commitments. The issue was carefully chosen, since it enlisted the support of both left and right. The left wing wanted Britain out of Asia on ban-the-bomb grounds; the right wing wanted much the same in order to save money better spent at home...
Curtis' aim was to market Raquel as a cool chick who knows her own mind -a sort of mens sana in corpore magnified. He trained her well. She told reporters that mother had given her a copy of The Carpetbaggers with the query, "Tell me if that really is the kind of career you want." Raquel said yes, with certain exceptions, of course. "I made up my mind," she told the newsmen, "that Hollywood is not a place filled with sinister characters lurking in half-shadows waiting to seduce virgins . . ." Reporters found this so refreshing that they didn...