Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Christian morals). Inside, mannequins topped with Marie Antoinette hairdos and draped with Dior hostess gowns hold aloft model reindeer and-of all things-old sailing boats. From the ceiling hang huge plastic chandeliers, each of which took 300 hours to make. Said Decorator Jean-François Daigre: "My aim has been to create so much light and color that people will want to enter what is normally a rather mysterious place...
Johnson's Law. Taking aim at inflation, however tentatively, the Administration shone the spotlight on business. In a telephone address to the 65-man Business Council, the President forecast record prosperity without inflation in 1966, made it clear that he expected businessmen to exert price restraint to match the effort of servicemen in Viet Nam. Said the President: "We can produce the goods and services we require without overheating the economy." Addressing the meeting of the National Association of Manufacturers a few days later, Richard Nixon evoked many businessmen's feeling that they are bearing the main burden...
...credit to the discipline of the organization, and the discipline of the organization is a credit to Sims. He discourages in private the bellicose attitude that he projects in public. His Deacons are merely a deterrent force to scare off racists who are hunting for trouble. Sim's aim is simply to keep the Klan out of Negro neighborhoods, and in this he succeeds. He has created a Cold War atmosphere in Bogalusa. No gunfights, no midnight raids, only sitting and waiting...
...would be simply untrue to claim that the HPC and HUC have earned a vote of confidence by the sheer weight of their accomplishments. There has not been enough time for that, What is important, is not the achievement, but the goals: This student government doesn't aim at electing someone to the American Presidency; nor does it see Nirvana in a neon-lighted lecture hall. Instead it is trying to focus the intelligence of interested students into the dark corners of Harvard's administrative policy, to improve substantially the education every student receives. It seems just possible that...
...Cuban missile crisis, Khrushchev saw Kennedy move-and that brink-of-war episode sobered both men. Kennedy felt that he had "peered into the abyss and knew the potentiality of chaos," says Schlesinger, and from then on his overriding aim was to minimize "the ethos of violence" and "to prevent unreason from rending the skin of civility." Shortly before Dallas, he read aloud a passage from King John...