Word: aims
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...admonished New York Democrats to "improvise," and for invidious inspiration he observed: "If the British after Dun kirk hadn't improvised, Hitler would have had England. If the Democrats after Chicago don't improvise, Nixon will have Washington." Improvising a bit himself in finding new darts to aim at the Republican nominee, Humphrey told an audience in Fort Worth that U.S. Marines had to be sent "to rescue [Nixon] from Venezuela...
...Defense Headquarters. Though students had also tried to assault the Diet building and the U.S. embassy, Shinjuku had been chosen as the major target because it is the departure point for many of the supplies sent to U.S. forces in Viet Nam. But the rioters' declared aim was to force the suspension of the U.S.Japan Defense Pact...
...enthusiastic solidarity was shaken by the angry speech of the Cambridge Peace and Freedom Club's candidate for state representative. Michael Schwartz, a graduate student in Social Relations, said that the only just solution for Vietnam is to end negotiations and withdraw immediately and totally. Since McCarthy's aim "from the outset" was to lead a campaign is "only shadow boxing." "Nice guy McCarthy has a minor tactical difference with Johnson," he continued to a rising chorus of boos. "McCarthy's movement is over now. McCarthy exists as a feeble support for Humphrey, afraid, as he says...
...fought through legislation providing for Keynesian control of the economy from the top, a council of economic "wise men," and four-year fiscal planning where none had existed before. Other Schiller ideas and slogans came in salvos. He junked the verbal Seelen-massagen (soul massages) that Erhard used to aim at German employers and unions. He substituted regular private sessions with business and labor at which he preaches "social symmetry," his way of describing wage and price restraint and equilibrium...
...trade. In his spy novels, Le Carrè himself has ignored the libidinous and gone directly to the problem of the confused identities of bumbling antiheroes. A Small Town in Germany is more a skillful novel of political intrigue than a spy story, but Le Carrè's aim is still the same...