Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which the Russians encouraged) were forbidden. Now that has been changed. And last week General Dwight D. Eisenhower told the press: Germans in towns and rural areas will elect local officials of their own choosing before winter. In the British zone, Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery said: "We aim at the restoration of local self-government throughout Germany on a democratic basis." But the western Allies had nothing to compare with Russia's new German government which, at least on paper, gave to some 16,000,000 Germans a greater responsibility in government than they enjoyed...
Nevertheless, insofar as such an action does not interfere with our own way of life, we heartily ratify the action of our Government in joining hands with a state, no matter what color its banner, if such a union will further our aim of beating Japan. Few Quixotes still proclaim that this war is being fought for ideals, and I believe there is no American-Protestant, Catholic, etc.-who is unwilling to welcome any type government into an alliance which will cooperate in preventing future wars...
...these uses and countless others, an amazing variety of radars have been developed. There are "early warning" radars which can pick up a plane more than 100 miles away and show how fast and in what direction it is flying; fire-control radars which automatically aim and fire a machine gun or antiaircraft gun more accurately than a human gunner; special radars that provide eyes for night fighter pilots, guide planes to blind landings (called G.C.A., "Ground-Controlled Approach"), observe stratospheric weather balloons and detect storms. Engineers think that it may even be possible some day to develop a missile...
...proved method of assisting the advancement of pure science that of picking men of genius, backing them heavily and leaving them to direct themselves," says President Conant. "There is only one proved method of getting results in applied science--picking men of genius, backing them heavily, and keeping their aim on the target chosen...
...nucleus. To release that energy, this unimaginably small object must be "split" or "smashed." For would-be atom-smashers, the atomic nucleus thus became a target. The problem was to find a bullet small and tough enough to blast it, and a gun powerful and accurate enough to aim that bullet...