Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Within a year, he became the chief Nazi propagandist. Judaism, he told his audiences, had produced the profiteers and Bolsheviks responsible for the defeat of the fatherland and the strangulation of the economy. Jews were bacilli infecting the arts, the press, the government. Pogroms would be insufficient. "The final aim must unquestionably be the irrevocable Entfernung ((removal)) of the Jews...
...gather to praise the forgettable comedy. Some movies can be faulted for nothing but low ambition. They aim not for the Academy Award. They disdain the zillion-dollar gross. Not for them a double-domed debate on the op-ed page. But some sweltering August evening, they afford easy wit, engaging performances and, for moviegoers, the satisfaction of 90 minutes well wasted...
...Taking aim at fedoras and pinstripes...
...regime has switched tactics. Reversing years of heavy restriction on citizens' travel, the authorities in Sofia agreed to issue passports and exit visas to ethnic Turks with the aim of limiting further clashes by reducing the size of the Turkish minority, and the mass exodus began. By last week 238,000 had crossed the border. Officials in Ankara believe the total could reach...
Texas is a state where men are men and good ole boys don't so much drive pickup trucks as aim them. And they don't cotton to being thought of as sissies. Somehow, the state highway commission failed to take that into account when it announced that the license plates on Texas' 13.5 million vehicles would henceforth carry not only a border of -- ugh! -- baby blue but also a limp slogan, THE FRIENDSHIP STATE...