Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Little Assembly would not "impinge upon" the action of the big powers on the Security Council; it might facilitate action. In effect, Marshall had rallied the little powers, which have hitherto paced the corridors as restless exiles from the U.N.'s big-power politics, squarely behind the aim of peace and against Russia's tactics of disruption and delay. Had Russian vetoes kept the Security Council from protecting Greece from Communists to the north? Then, said Marshall, let the Assembly pass its own judgment on the Greek question. The U.S., he left no doubt, would be ready...
...cigaret and, after the first 100 pages, dull to read about. Merely exaggerating the absurd is no sure way to hilarity; satire must make its own kind of sense and this makes little or none. Readers will admire Ruark's choice of target but deplore his aim...
...Picasso took on as aim the fantastic wager of destroying the phantom of 'official' beauty and substituting his own personal concept of beauty. He pursues and discovers beauty even in objects regarded as ugly-just as light sometimes lends to sordid things effects of gorgeous color...
...Louis (Nickel Plate) road. He will distribute C. & O.'s 192,400 Nickel Plate shares to C. & O. stockholders as a stock dividend. In permitting Young to shed control of a road that competes with the New York Central, ICC removed one more obstacle to Young's aim to control the Central...
...France sold for $350,000 last May; it is the Literary Guild choice for October, and thus sure of sales in the hundreds of thousands. To these rewards, critical acclaim is not likely to be added on the same scale. Proud Destiny resembles War and Peace in the general aim of treating great events (in this case France's part in the American Revolution) in terms of the people who enact or suffer them. The resemblance does not go much beyond that...