Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Official union leaders at the meeting wanted the ship to sail. Murphy's immediate demands (for more representation from the rank & file at union negotiations) were only a smokescreen for his major aim: to hold the Mary at Southampton for at least a day, regardless of the cost. If he could do that, he might inject some hope into the fading Merseyside strike...
...typical tough guy drama, "Ride the Pink Horse" achieves no great moments; but on the other hand, it doesn't aim for any. Tense and taut throughout, everything conceivable is strained; not even the imagination is overlooked...
Instruments of Destruction. Czar Petrillo's aim as a union leader was understandable: he wants to keep his union big and his income fat.* Actually, Petrillo's union is big and rich only because he has been able to keep it heavily featherbedded. Of the 216,000 members, only about 35,000 are full-time professionals; about twice as many are part-timers who, says Petrillo, "are not quite making a living at it." But more than half are onetime musicians who, like Petrillo, have put aside their instruments and make their living in other occupations...
...current Five-Year Plan, formulated in 1946, has as its first aim the restoration of 1940 levels. Hence the report plainly meant that Russia is not so strong as she would like to scare the world into believing...
...fact that we can today count our outstanding presidents on the fingers of one hand. ... I should place educational leadership ahead of mere administrative ability; the latter can be secured, it can be bought. The former is far rarer. . . . What reason have we to anticipate that men whose aim has been the winning of elections, or increasing the earnings of their stockholders, or even defeating the enemy in a series of bloody battles, will automatically sympathize with these ideals of a university-complete freedom of research, untrammeled freedom of teaching, and the pursuit of truth wherever that may lead...