Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...These are delegates." But for Kennedy, it was more important to bring out the crowds, to show the Ohio politicians his pulling power on the streets. The delegates, he figures, will come over only if he proves to them that he can electrify the electorate. Until June 4, his aim is not to wrestle delegates to the ground in non-primary states, but merely to keep them out of Humphrey's hammerlock...
...camps as Dak To, where some of the bloodiest fighting of the war took place last fall. Moving in bad weather, North Vietnamese are filtering along the mountain ridges and positioning themselves close to Route 14, along which most of the 250,000 people in the Highlands live. Their aim is to capture Kontum and hold it for at least a while, thus scoring a propaganda victory; but they cannot begin to do that until they eliminate or neutralize the protective string of allied outposts, such as the Special Forces camp of Polei Kleng twelve miles west of Kontum. Last...
...while Umpire Skitch Henderson scrutinized his style. Even though the Philharmonic had a ringer in sometime triangle player George Plimpton, Stokowski's sluggers drummed out a 15-10 victory. "They're younger," allowed a Philharmonic musician. Not so, snapped the maestro: "When we play a game, we aim...
...study of career planning, sponsored by various large business firms. Despite the backing of the business world, however, Merrill claims that the study is, if anything, more important to the students involved in it, and to all those who are now or will be soon investigating business careers. The aim of the study was to discover what attracts students to particular jobs or specific companies. Such a study helps students in several ways. By pointing out what they are interested in to various businesses, they are more likely to be offered what they want. And students are also forced...
Morris, of course, maintains that his aim is to demystify the viewer. Says he of his sculpture: "You don't have to explore it. The information is given at once." To him, the appeal of felt is twofold: its shape depends on how it is draped. Secondly, felt comes naturally in heather, maroon and buff (Morris refuses to color his metal works, since paint creates "a second skin...