Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...direct aim of qualifying Negroes to vote, Martin Luther King's two-week registration drive in Selma, Ala., was a flop. Despite a federal court injunction against interfering with orderly registration, Sheriff Jim Clark and his deputies arrested 56 more applicants and civil rights workers last week, bringing the total to 282. And during the two weeks not a single Negro was added to the registration rolls...
...Jones industrials this year are expected to edge above $50 per share. The bulls multiply that by 19.4 and come up with the conclusion that the Dow-Jones by year's end will approach 1,000. That is, at least, a nice round figure to aim...
Within its limited aims, EFTA has been good for the nations involved. The per-capita income of its 97 million inhabitants is slightly higher than the Common Market's. Not counting the British surcharge, the EFTA partners have cut their industrial tariffs by 70% in the past five years, including a 10% reduction this month, and the official aim is to bring them down to zero within two years. They have increased their trade with one another by 50% . Though that is not quite as high as their increase in dealings with the Common Market, it is far greater...
...Josephus was a turncoat. During the savage Roman-Jewish war that destroyed the Jewish state and scattered its people around the world, Josephus expediently forsook his Jewish citizenship to become a Roman. In countless apologias, he argued that his aim was not to save his skin but to convince his countrymen that their defeat was inevitable. Later, as a court favorite in Rome, he turned out voluminous histories extolling the grandeur of the Roman Empire. But while rendering unto Caesar, he was a lucid, readable historian, whose chronicles are packed with largely reliable political and social detail...
...Convenience should not be our only aim in life," the statement read. "Memorial Drive is an oasis in a desert of throughways...