Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, in their most ambitious step yet to force foreign firms to stop operating in Israel, the Arabs took aim at three U.S. corporate giants, Coca-Cola Co., Radio Corp. of America and Ford Motor...
...group of Republicans took partisan aim at the President's National Advisory Commission on Selective Service. It challenged the commission, which is expected to forward its recommendations on draft revision to the President in January, to "let knowledgable draft critics -- particularly proponents of a volunteer military" debate the alternatives supposedly being considered by the President's group...
...reasons for doing things. It is a tradition with rules-perfectly simple ones. If you know them, then you can do any kind of cooking." To teach rules and take the mystery out of French cooking, and adapt it to the U.S. kitchen and supermarket, is Julia's aim and the key to her success...
Working the Record. From the way help is arriving, the Renaissance belongs to everyone. Spontaneously, a Committee to Rescue Italian Art (CRIA) was set up in the U.S. by museums and college art departments, with Jacqueline Kennedy as its active president. Its aim: to raise $2,500,000 for salvage operations. One of its first acts: to dispatch 16 expert restorers to the site to help out. But the biggest requirement is helping hands. One California art historian, Eve Borsook of Pasadena, who rescued 130,000 negatives of art objects from the Uffizi, rushed them to Harvard's Villa...
They were-and so was a lunch with 400 civic boosters. Their aim: to make Haverhill the site of a $375 million AEC atom-smashing accelerator and so gain 2,000 new jobs, 10,000 new residents and a $16 million-a-year payroll. Haverhill, one among 148 locations considered by AEC, is no longer in the running, but six other communities, from Sacramento, Calif., to Brookhaven, N.Y., are still battling for that plum with offers of free land, improved schools, and even tax-subsidized power expansion. Their skirmishing is part of an increasingly competitive struggle among states and cities...