Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beginning (and until 1901), Town & Country was the homely Home Journal, originally a newspaper-size nickel weekly. Its founders were Nathaniel Willis, the man who helped make European travel fashionable, and George P. Morris, the man who wrote Woodman, Spare That Tree. For the provincial U.S. of 1846, their aim was high: "... to give the cream of new books, to keep a watchful lookout for genius in literature, music...
...N.A.M.'s effort to change, said Earl Bunting, "is an evolutionary thing, more than an about-face; it's an abandonment of prejudices which some of us have had in the past. It's our aim now to go right down the middle of the road...
...truly general education by eliminating narrow departmental divisions, is not tied down by traditional methods and policies culled from the rosy memories of a glorious past. Instead, it may perhaps set a high mark of education, toward which many of the older fields might do well to aim...
Vargas' misnamed Labor Party had been created by some of the country's richest profiteers, who made party policy on their well-appointed ranches. The party's and Vargas' immediate aim: victory for his party's candidates in the January elections for state governorships. By controlling local offices, Getulio hoped to surround the Dutra Government, get back political dictatorship of the country...
...Good Neighbor Policy, which had as its aim the bringing together of all Western Hemisphere nations in a democratic group, worked, in effect, when it was administered by Welles (along with some shrewd and cold-hearted Welles meddling in internal Latin American affairs). It was least effective when it was merely pronounced in righteous terms by Cordell Hull, who had an unhappy faculty of alienating sensitive Latinos with the Tennessee mountain vigor of his epithets...