Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There indeed will be new challenges, and they may be less deadly but at the same time subtler, more complicated and more difficult to cope with than those of the past. The fact that Nikita Khrushchev is speaking more softly does not mean that he has abandoned his aim to seek the expansion of Communist power, a goal so deeply rooted and institutionalized that Soviet leaders will feel almost a historical duty to exploit gaps in the capacity, unity and will of the West...
...vicious circle of slum birth to slum school to bad education to low-paid job and parenthood of more slum children. The widely accepted premise is that the circle can and must be broken at the school stage. Equally important is that segregated neighborhood schools refute the original aim of Horace Mann's "common school," strengthening democracy by serving all races, creeds and classes. Integrationists believe that schools can help to heal U.S. race relations by returning to Mann's ideal...
...refiner and marketer. Ludwig bought the stock from Phillips Petroleum, which had been blocked by U.S. trustbusters from absorbing Union Oil but happily gained a $46 million pretax profit on the sale. The deal makes Ludwig the largest single stockholder in Union Oil, and though he denies any immediate aim to ship its oil in his tankers, envious competitors note that the two interests make a handsome pair...
...years Passamaquoddy has been a long Indian name for a dormant idea. Last week President Kennedy called it "one of the most astonishing and beneficial joint enterprises that the people of the U.S. have ever undertaken." With Canada as a junior partner, the U.S. again will aim to harness the 18-ft. ocean tides of Passamaquoddy Bay on the Maine border and use them to generate electric power for New England, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia (see map). The project, said an Interior Department report, would do "as much for New England as Grand Coulee Dam has done...
Polyphony, Not Polygamy. The program and the choir were never-and are not-intended to proselytize. In fact, the word Mormon is mentioned only twice in each show, and then only in the name of the choir. "The aim of the broadcasts was and is intended to achieve a universality," says Apostle Richard L. Evans, who for 33 years has supplied the spoken word. His sermonettes heard with the choir contain no doctrine of the Latter-day Saints, in stead deal with Christian ethics. "Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin...