Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cook, from poet to guerrilla leader, from Parisian photo retoucher to pseudo-Buddhist monk. His name-changes alone would fill an address book (some 20 have been pinned down, ranging from Nguyen "the Victorious" to "Old Chap" Wang). But beneath the chimeric legend lies a purposeful, pragmatic Communist whose aim is the conquest of all Southeast Asia...
Chinese used their U.S. dollars that Washington last week announced the end of the banquet. The cut-off of economic assistance to Formosa will mark the first time that any U.S. aid program in any underdeveloped nation has accomplished its ultimate aim-which is, after all, to put itself out of business...
...Southern Snoot Club. But even readers who dis like Wolfe's flamboyant, exaggerated style and who feel that he has less than a firm regard for facts agree that there are few other writers today who have so mordant a sense of the ridiculous or such deadly sharpshooting aim...
Whimsicalities & Sound Effects. His youthful ambition was to use that aim to put a sharp-breaking curve over the plate. He was a pitcher for Washington and Lee University, played two seasons of semi-pro ball, and hoped to be a full-fledged professional. "I had a great screwball," he claims. "But one day they told me I would never make it, so I went to Yale and took a Ph.D. in something called American Studies...
...managers, who think of potential loss before they think of potential gain and place one factor above all others: the quality of a company's management. The biggest funds-such as Investors' Mutual, Massachusetts Investors' Trust and the Wellington Fund-have a small turnover and aim to find stocks that they can profitably hold for six years or more...