Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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October 15 was the projected deadline for completion of the renovations. "We were on schedule as of Monday, then the 15th became an unrealistic deadline because of the cold spilt," Tribble said. "If it hadn't gotten cold there wouldn't have been any problems. Next year we'll aim for the first of October...
Crimson: A minority group dissatisfied about something--in what manner would you recommend in general that they go about achieving their aim...
...annual One-Shot Antelope Hunt near the town of Lander, Secretary of the Interior James Watt was the happy warrior at home on the range. Six three-member teams competed, each hunter limited to a single shot. As the dawn mist rose off the Sweetwater River, Watt took aim through his telescopic sight at an antelope 150 yds. away. The animal loped off to the left; Watt's shot was wide. "Most of you think that I can shoot the eyes out of anything moving to the left, but not this time," said Watt. Then, like a Hemingway protagonist...
Hard, also, to remember a movie that has more authentically captured the fretfulness of a relationship where nothing is irredeemably wrong but nothing is terribly right. When, on location for her foolish film, Josepha decides to have a vengeful affair, her aim is to shake up, not necessarily break up, her marriage. But it turns out that the drift into separation is neither more nor less uncomfortable to endure than the tuggings and haulings of an old marriage. It does, at least, give everyone a new set of problems to think about, and the novelty is welcome. Josepha lacks...
While Springsteen's sympathy for his victims does not aim to legitimize their actions, it effectively draws the connection between personal tragedies and larger social ills. The answers to these problems are not apparent and perhaps less so than they have been in less threatening times. But the despair which once prompted down trodden characters to "spit in the face of these badlands" and "take a knife and cut this pain from my heart" on previous albums now produces little of this feisty desire to combat debilitating odds. Pleads the jailed autoworker in "Johnny 99": "Then...