Word: aimed
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Strange Birds. The flares and gunfire were the work of two right-wing Laotian generals whose aim was the overthrow of the ramshackle coalition government headed by Neutralist Prince Souvanna Phouma. Jeep loads of paratroopers under the command of General Siho Lamphouthacoul, 28, chief of the military security police, set up roadblocks all over the capital and arrested every neutralist in sight-including Premier Souvanna...
...girl who wanted to go beyond an occasional basket-weaving course to full voting membership in the Young Women's Christian Association has formerly had to accept the Y's aim of pro moting "those ideals of personal and social living to which we are committed by our faith as Christians...
...spectacular crack-up was the most significant crash safety test in the history of U.S. civil aviation. Financed by the Federal Aviation Agency at a cost of $168,000, the project was planned by private aircraft companies, commercial airlines and the National Aeronautics and Space Agency. Its aim: to test new passenger safety devices and to analyze the pattern of structural damage wrought by such an impact...
...more fundamental question is whether the Khrushchev line denotes only a temporary, tactical change in Communism or a more profound one. All Communists, no matter of what stripe, still share the aim of defeating capitalism; but this statement, while as true as ever, is no longer a sufficient analysis of the situation. Some of the metamorphoses that Communism has undergone may have begun as tactical moves which in effect make Communism more attractive, but may end up meaning more-for example, Yugoslavia's compromises with free enterprise, the Italian Communist Party's championship of the small businessman...
...Bengasi during a lecture tour of Africa. At the request of his longtime publishers, Oxford University Press, he had left behind an essay, which was released on his birthday. His exploration of history from its start to the present, wrote the much-honored author, provided the "fulfillment of my aim. For my aim was to expand my horizon and my field to the limits of my capacity." Concluded he, in Greek verse...