Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gorges of the Mekong and Salween Rivers, and as it winds around the shoulders of huge hills it is as easy to see as a yellow ribbon binding a pile of green bundles. That it has not been permanently cut has been due to the halfheartedness and poor aim of Japanese bombers, and to the amazing Chinese capacity for regeneration. Thousands of coolies mend steel bridges with bamboo and rope, fill craters and landslides with little basketfuls of dirt...
...Mutual, a cooperative organization, does not aim to make a profit as a system-merely to make profits for its constituent stations...
...mimeographed questionnaire, prepared by the CRIMSON, was sent to the more than 500 men who have used the Bureau, asking them how much help they had received, how good the teaching had been, and whether or not the Supervisors had lived up to their aim of teaching methods of work rather than cramming examination facts...
...Brock hadn't thought much about sketching in Cairo; but he reported last week from Budapest that the more he talked with talkative German soldiers the more certain he was that the Nazi machine would aim point-blank at Cairo and the Suez Canal very soon. Making the most of his talent for getting around, Correspondent Brock pieced together the following agenda: By the end of this week the Nazis intended to bulldoze Turkey into permitting the passage of German troops and equipment, lending air bases to the Luftwaffe, placing roads, railroads and wires at complete disposal...
...real issue was whether the British would still have a place to fight the Germans on land when U.S. aid becomes effective. The German aim was clearly to eliminate the whole of the Middle East and the whole of North Africa-as the whole of Europe had already been eliminated-from the areas of the world where British soldiers and U.S. arms might attack German soldiers and arms. If this could be done, there would be few places left where the U.S. could support a British attack against the Nazis...