Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Aim Well." A carabiniere brought his crutches. Caruso carefully hunched his body on them, swung himself over to the chair. He had trouble straddling it, his face to the hillock. Quickly Caruso's pudgy body was bound to the chair's back. Then he was left with the priest. They talked. Caruso prayed and kissed a tiny crucifix attached to a specially blessed rosary that Pope Pius XII had sent him. The priest stepped away...
Caruso turned his head a little. Those nearest heard him say, in a voice that was neither a cry nor a shout, but a husky statement, startingly clear: "Viva l'Italia! Aim well...
...Dumbarton Oaks was winding up its work. The U.S., Britain and Russia had seen eye-to-eye on the Great Blueprint for world organization. Minor details could wait. The important fact, said the Secretary of State, was that the Big Three, in peace as in war, have a common aim. The 39 delegates had nothing much left to do but wait for final nods from their respective Governments. Then the Chinese, who have been watching intently from just outside the Dumbarton Oaks' high brick wall, will move in formally and make the plan fit a Big Four...
...British correspondents after one of the war's most spectacular journalistic jaunts. Late last month, led by the A.P.'s Ed Kennedy, the five had commandeered an Army jeep and driver, set out from the southern to the northern French theater of operations without permission. Their aim: to be the first Americans to "make a juncture" with U.S. troops in the northern theater. They were the first, by ten days, having passed unscathed between two German columns. For this scandalous breach of regulations the five were suspended (i.e., forbidden to file copy) by Brigadier General Tristram Tupper...
Educator Dewey readily admits that present educational practice and thinking are sadly awry. "Some of us ... agree that the present system (if it may be called a system) is so lacking in unity of aim, material, and method as to be something of a patchwork. . . . We agree that we are uncertain as to where we are going and where we want to go, and why.we are doing what...