Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over 750,000. Police circulated through the city, first warning residents without domicile permits (issued after last May's terrible raids) to leave town, then sealing their houses. Cinemas, singsong halls, western-style restaurants were ordered closed. Schools and unessential Government bureaus were to be evacuated. The aim: a population reduced to 100,000. Last week's population...
...Myerson's aim is to imitate, not improve on nature. So he often inserts little wedges of darker stained porcelain into the orange body, cuts ridges and erosions on the enamel coats, bleaches small patches, shadows imitation cavities, sets teeth crooked in their plastic plates. The new teeth are made in Dr. Myerson's two Boston factories, sold to dentists all over the U. S. through regular dental supply houses. A plate takes eight days to make, costs little more than ordinary false teeth...
...fluttery matron of social parts. And the inevitable fish-eyed English butler, Arthur Treacher, chills the drinks with a glance. The technicolor charity ball approaches the photography of GWTW; versatile Anna Neagle, who dances, sings, and acts with equal ability, sets a high mark for other screen beauties to aim at. This movie is a guaranteed cure for blue book blues...
...attempt to make himself a Napoleon." Said His Lordship: "There are a number of people in lunatic asylums who . . . have quite as much chance of saving England as Mr. Churchill has. But now that Democracy [in England] has received the last kick of farewell, what is the war aim which will justify mourning in every English home...
Reds. Working at cross-purposes until the Soviet-German Pact clarified the atmosphere, Communists and Nazis in Mexico now have a common aim: to smear the U. S., Great Britain and France. The aggressive Mexican Communist Party figures chiefly in its control of the all-powerful Confederación de Trabajadores Mexicanos (CTM), whose organ El Popular lambasted Hitler and Mussolini until the day of the Pact, now reviles Roosevelt and the imperialists intent on "dragging Mexico into war." Vicente Lombardo Toledano, dynamic leader of the CTM, has organized and uniformed a formidable army of 200,000 storm troops, drilling...