Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Later, by a voice vote, the Baptists passed a resolution that took dead aim at the election. "When a public official is inescapably bound by the dogma and demands of his church, he cannot consistently separate himself from these. This is especially true when that church maintains a position in open conflict with our established and constituted American pattern of life as specifically related to religious liberty, separation of church and state, the freedom of conscience in matters related to marriage and the family, the perpetuation of free public schools and the prohibition against use of public monies for sectarian...
Along with the down-on-the-farm crudity came a threat aimed at the West's more vulnerable allies. Said Nikita: "The countries that have bases on their territories should note most carefully the following: if they allow others to fly from their bases to our territory, we shall hit at those bases." To drive his point home, Khrushchev summoned to his side Pakistani Ambassador to Moscow Salman Ali and warned him that Soviet defense forces "have drawn a ring around Peshawar "-where the U2's pilot Francis Powers allegedly began his flight-and were prepared, if necessary...
Peter's in Rome. Pope John XXIII consecrated 14 missionary bishops, under scored the Vatican's aim to proselytize the world's youngest nations. Among seven African Negroes elevated was Poreku Dery, Ghana's new Bishop of Wa. Others came from countries that are antiquating most maps of Africa- Ruanda-Urundi, the Voltaic, Ivory Coast and Malagasy republics. With a prayerful eye on this week's summit talks, His Holiness said: "The attention of millions is directed with deep anxiety on the words, actions, appearances of the highest representatives of the great nations on whose...
...Gilbert Mason, 31, Biloxi's only practicing Negro physician, 80 Negro men, women and children waded into the gulf, were driven off by a gang of club-wielding, chain-swinging whites. The Negroes have not been back. The new wade-in assault, said Wilkins, will aim at segregated, tax-supported beaches and parks in eleven states along a 2,000-mile coastline curving from Cape May, N.J. to Brownsville, Texas...
...alarm, the Ford Foundation last week put up $10.5 million toward a $100 million Indian government pilot scheme for the reshaping of the nation's agriculture. The plan will establish model farming projects in seven scattered regions embracing 10,000 villages and 1,000,000 farmers, with the aim of raising their food production by a breathtaking 50% in five years as an example to the rest of the nation. If the scheme works and its lessons are gradually applied to other areas, India's total food grain output should rise to at least no million tons...