Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, librarians examining the French Foreign Ministry's archives (which had been stolen by the Germans and returned to France by the U.S. Army), discovered that the original Versailles Treaty had been destroyed by the Nazis. It was the one war aim Germany had fully achieved...
...blast of gas. Later, as it gains speed, these are supplemented by four sets of vanes on the fins. These obey orders from gyroscope devices. They are pre-set on the ground; after the rocket has taken off, it cannot be deflected to a new course, or its aim corrected. All its nursemaids can do is cut off the power by radio. Last week they let it blast away for 59.4 seconds. Super-Vergeltungswaflen of the future, Army experts hoped, would be better trained...
...first specific postwar aim that Russia, Britain and the U.S. agreed on (at Moscow in 1943) was that Austria should be "free and independent [with] political and economic security. . . ." Applause twittered around the world; it just went to show, didn't it, what a little good will could accomplish...
...Pretty" numbers like Blue Bayou and a silhouetted ballet by Dancers Tatiana Riabouchinska and David Lichine aim for, and perfectly achieve, the qualities of dime-store and gift-shoppe art. As such they have great skill and a certain naive charm; but only genuine lovers of that kind of art can genuinely enjoy them. More likely to please everybody...
...thousands of Americans skeptically or hopefully doping themselves with drops, oils, balms, unguents, drugs, juices, tablets, shots, minerals and liquor, it was the loftiest medical project of the age. The National Institute of Health would launch (about July 1) a fight to the finish against the common cold. The aim: to discover prevention and cure for the ailment that every day keeps an estimated 250,000 Americans away from work in industry alone...