Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...secretary's first duties will be to draw up an address book of the class. When completed, the book will be kept constantly up-to-date to serve as a perpetual file. "Our aim is to make '48 the best-informed class Harvard over had," Ray A. Goldberg '48, first marshal, stated...
...Mihailovich and his Chetniks, whom they considered no better than Hitler and his Nazis. Author St. John scanned the horizon for opponents of New Yugoslavia, but they were as scarce as Tories in the Kremlin. The few he did find turned out to be selfish little rascals whose only aim was to get their confiscated property or obtain a U.S. passport...
After the London Foreign Ministers' Conference breakup, Ernest Bevin said: "We have no aim . . . to divide the world [But] we cannot go on as we have been going on. . . . We have hoped against hope that four-power collaboration would work. . . . We shall close no doors...
...because too few of the things they needed, or wanted to buy, were available. Never knowing when deposits might be frozen, they distrusted banks, kept their hoarded money at home. Rationing controls could not be lifted until this money was destroyed, and its destruction was Zhdanov's principal aim...
...aim of the survey, was not to discover secret weapons, Steinbeck explained. "We didn't meet a single high official and it was our aim not to, for all we wanted was to study the people...