Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...actual aim will be. not to obtain immediate surrender, but to drive a wedge between the German nation and the Nazi Government...
Trouble loomed from the outset. Soon after Italy capitulated, a handful of British airborne troops took a handful of Dodecanese and Aegean islands off Turkey's west coast. Their aim: air bases, harbors from which to harass from the rear the Nazis' outer chain of Balkan defenses-the islands of Rhodes, Scarpanto and Crete...
...frequency of the convulsions increases, the amplitude of their violence grows; the point of exhaustion has come within almost measurable range. There might be one or two more world wars but not a dozen. . . . Meanwhile [the] chief aim will be to create oases in the interregnum desert. ... In the so-called Dark Ages ... such oases assured the continuity of civilization: the monasteries first and later the universities ... on which no gendarme could set foot...
Present & Future. Britain's first idea is still to get on with the war in Europe, to win it decisively and as quickly as possible. Aside from this immediate aim, British thinking is mainly concerned with: 1) Britain's trade and employment after the war; 2) the Empire's future; 3) relations with the U.S. and the Soviet Union; 4) the economic and political re-organization of Europe. All of these problems interlock; most Britons would rate the first as the most important and it is certainly the closest to home. They know well that the most...
...Indian, yet "he might almost be called the first citizen of India." As such, he saw England and the world as might "a visitor from another planet." But though he was one of the least subjective of poets, Kipling was by no means detached. His first all-absorbing aim was to preach Empire and the men who extended and sustained it. Later on "he is more concerned with the problem of the soundness of the core of empire." At that same time "his vision takes a larger view, and he sees the Roman Empire and the place of England...