Word: aimed
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Adventure does not preclude a lofty aim. There is a whole new breed of Americans who seek adventure in politics or war abroad, including a small, constantly changing, necessarily anonymous group of American youths who have joined with European contemporaries to spirit East Germans through the Berlin Wall. Adventure is also constantly produced in the name of scientific exploration, but whatever the admixture of other causes, the true adventurer is an idealist only by the way; he is really after adventure for its own sake...
...Game. What followed resembled in some respects a war game, in others a game of poker. First the Administration announced that it would sell 100,000 tons of excess aluminum from the Government's huge stockpile, hoping to pressure the companies by weakening prices (yet denying any such aim). As the Aluminum Co. of America joined the price rise, the Government raised that total to 200,000. Then Alcoa Executive Vice President Leon Hickman, chief negotiator for the industry, vowed that the aluminum producers would stick by their price boosts. Furious at this open defiance, the Texas White House...
...format, the Reporter is a national weekly newspaper. Its aim is to bring the same kind of critical reporting to affairs of the church that a good secular paper brings to the doings at city hall. The Reporter was the first Catholic journal to expose a confidential order from the Apostolic Delegate limiting ecumenical contact with Protestants, the first to publish the membership list of the Pope's birth-control commission. Its reporting on Vatican II, by James Johnson and Desmond O'Grady, has been consistently discerning in conveying the moods and trends of the council...
...ambitious man, and his choice of domicile may ultimately be the White House rather than Gracie Mansion. At any rate, after spending an exhausting six months devoted to learning about the problems of the city he will lead, John Lindsay no longer talks as if his aim is a single, candidacy-building term in city hall. "It will take eight years to do what has to be done," he said quietly last week. "If my record is good after one term, I would hope I could get reelected. I want to be a good mayor...
...under a 22-man board that included 11 members over 65, May continually recruits younger executives, schools them in the company's "fashion image." The curriculum is intended to teach them taste in merchandising in the same sense that May applies it to art collecting. May's aim is to make his stores leading arbiters of good taste in all twelve cities where they are clustered...