Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...discovered that they knew better, suddenly recognized what a difference a little lipstick can make. To meet the booming demand for cosmetics, U.S. companies such as Helena Rubinstein, Elizabeth Arden and Revlon have moved in alongside such traditional powder-and-scent houses as Atkinson, Goya and Yardley to take aim on a $300 million-a-year business. Although one-quarter of British women still use neither powder nor lipstick, eye shadow sales have jumped 36% in the past year; deodorants are up 7%. Today, the average Englishwoman spends $8 annually on cosmetics. The British teen-ager was traditionally a purposefully...
Although Morgenthau held out little hope for total disarmament, he believed technological stability might bring a balance between the United States and the Soviet Union, with both sides possessing invulnerable attack forces. Keeping the amount of armaments within reasonable bounds, he stated, should become the "realistic aim" of the government...
Attempted Murder. U.S. policy was to aim for eventual collective action by the 21-member Organization of American States. Castro had plainly violated the Caracas Declaration of 1954 barring Communist domination of any hemisphere nation. But Latin American politicos tacitly made two demands in return for their support. One was that the U.S. should make no unilateral move against Castro. The other was that the U.S. must support Latino efforts to get rid of dictatorship and backwardness throughout the hemisphere. Last week, when it became plain that Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo of the Dominican Republic was back of the recent...
...aim here," wrote the Times's Dale, in the current issue of the scholarly Yale Review, "is, unabashedly, to argue that God is after all in His heaven -as much as He ever is-and that all's right with the world." Dale recognized that there are indeed real and serious world problems. But he suggested that "things are not nearly as bad as they are commonly painted in the deeper and continuing struggle, which is invariably, if somewhat uncritically, described as the most serious in which this nation has ever been engaged...
...ensues, the much-wooed B. & O. stockholders will be in a position to pick and choose-or to force the Central and C. & O. to talk compromise terms with one another. Railroadmen felt that the two competitors might not really be very far apart: Perlman's publicly stated aim is a three-way merger of the Central, C. & O. and B. & O., and more than one railroadman believes that is exactly what the C. & O.'s canny president, Walter J. Tuohy, is ultimately after...