Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...revolution" and fled to England. With Vallin went Pierre Brossolette, Socialist editor, long active in the French underground. Once bitter political enemies, both men were mentioned in dispatches during the battle of France; now they were pledged to work side by side with General Charles de Gaulle. Their common aim: the liberation of a France that (in the words of Archbishop Saliège) once preserved "traditional respect for the human individual" in "the conscience of all her children...
Founded in October, 1941 to take, up the slack in undergraduate thinking which inevitably took root as the United States approached closer to World War II, the Council had as its aim to provoke serious thought and discussion about post-war problems and interest in international cooperation...
...sinister Pierre Laval protested to the U.S. Chargé d'Affairs, S. Pinkney Tuck, that the U.S. bombings of Rouen and Havre were "odious aggression," Mr. Tuck did not even pretend to wait for an answer from Washington. Then & there, he told Laval that the U.S. did not aim to kill Frenchmen but all factories in Occupied France operated by or for Germany "would be bombed at every opportunity in the future...
...Francisco Morazáán, a fighting man who dreamed of democracy and unity in the corrupt and revolt-torn states of Central America, directed his own death scene. At San José in Costa Rica, Morazán commanded the firing squad which faced him. He corrected the aim, ordered fire, fell, raised his bloody head to order a second volley. He died as great a hero in Central America as Simón Bolivar in South America...
...better luck on his second project, teaching the Navy to shoot. In face of opposition, he introduced a real target instead of an imaginary one, longer practice ranges, continuous aim firing, improved telescopic sights, new methods of fire control. He developed a spirit of competition in a fleet that used to shoot off its year's ammunition as an unpleasant chore. The Navy's marksmanship became legend...