Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Saigon's sputtering Cabinet crisis flared again last week, and in its brief glare, Premier Nguyen Cao Ky began looking like an artful Asian politician. Once again the dissident Southerners in Ky's 26-man Cabinet tendered their resignations en masse. Their aim: to undercut Northern influence in the government and solidify a Southern bloc of soldiers and civilians for next year's national elections. The seven dissidents reasoned that Ky would do anything to avoid a messy internal dispute on the eve of the Manila Conference. "The general idea," said one Southern Cabinet Minister...
...policy, then, must not be conceived as one sweeping change, but a series of consistent steps designed to persuade both the American people and the North Vietnamese of a fundamental shift in emphasis. The first step is to put new men, whose fundamental aim is achieving a negotiated settlement, into important positions. Part of America's current ambivalence can be traced to the ambivalence of the men in policy-making posts; naturally, their pledges for peace are unconvincing. The President, having missed a number of recent opportunities to make constructive changes, must now use the path of White House appointments...
Krishnamurti described looking at a leaf (most quasi-philosophers usually aim at larger objects like a tree, but our man was being more selective). "While looking at a leaf my attention is distracted by other images which flash through my mind," he said. By following these images to their conclusion, Krishnamurti clears his mind of the day's debris and returns to the leaf with all his powers of concentration. He is convinced that if a man did this with every idea which crossed his mind during the day, he would have explored everything in his unconscious. He would have...
...make this complaint being perhaps a better sport than I. I would not take a thing away from Mr. Jaster, and at his age he has a very large chance to beat Alex's record many times over. He (Alex) has a few more records for someone to aim for and "beat...
Selling Short. The biggest reason for the week's activity was a bear stampede. After selling borrowed shares, bears aim to cover their loans and also make a tidy profit by buying the same stock when prices have declined still lower. Big bears have been following the practice all summer long. Little bears followed and, as of last fortnight, short sales by odd-lotters (selling fewer than 100 shares) reached their highest level in more than 30 years...