Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Government plans to persuade 2,000 women to stop smoking. The aim is not simply to encourage abstinence from tobacco, nor will a woman become eligible merely by making known her desire to give up cigarettes. To qualify, a woman must have smoked during one recent pregnancy and be willing to quit smoking while carrying another child...
Speaking at the last of a series of well-attended lectures on contemporary philosophy, Aiken said that philosophy aims not just at understanding but at changing the world, or to be more precise, at changing the philosopher himself. In this sense, its aim is practical and moral...
...will not give way as easily as did Montgomery, Ala. during his famous 1956 bus boycott. Albany's dominant whites, politicians and businessmen alike, have so far refused Negro appeals to establish even a basis of communication between the two groups. Increasingly, Negroes, though still united in their aim, are being discouraged by a sense of failure: each protest march ends in jail. As much as the pleas of King, the presence of Police Chief Laurie Pritchett, 36, an intelligent officer who has dealt unemotionally and with dignity with the Negroes, has kept the activists among them from turning...
McLain does not think his "villages" are in competition with Webb's "cities," which, he says, "are for the more affluent elderly who can more than afford to pay for them. Our aim is to create low-cost, quality rentals, and at the same time, like Sun City, give the old folks a good, busy life. It's got to be like a long vacation on a cruise ship-never a dull moment...
...wrong thing. Given the choice between doing something right or something wrong Frick will usually begin by doing as little as possible. It is only when he is pushed to the wall for a decision that he will almost always, with sure instinct and unerring aim, make an unholy mess of things...