Word: aims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...press for a security conference, largely because it wanted formal recognition of existing postwar boundaries in Central Europe. Bilateral agreements have since sanctified most of the boundaries. More recently, Moscow seemed intent on using a security conference as an avenue to gaining Western economic cooperation and technical knowledge. That aim, too, has largely been achieved through bilateral contacts. So why is the Soviet Union so obviously delighted that the conference is at last taking place...
...French believers in a nuclear force claim that parity is not the objective of the Mururoa tests, that the aim is simply to develop sufficient weapons to provide a taux d'ennui (nuisance tax). If France could knock out just a couple of major cities in any attacking nation, this reasoning goes, that would be enough to deter a bigger power from trying to knock out all of France...
There were other games. At the top of his backswing, Johnny was told to aim the brass rivet on the left rear pocket of his Levi's at the ball. That helped him develop a smooth, rhythmic swing, which the pro said was "as natural as walking down the street." So that he would learn to perform under pressure, Johnny took on all comers on the putting green for up to 25? per hole. Slim as a seven iron, he also had to learn to make up in accuracy what he lacked in power. The tighter the fairways...
Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood . . . Make big plans, aim high in hope and work...
Since the aim of the blind poet in writing the most ambitious poem in English was to justify God's ways to man, no Milton lover at this point feels much like standing up and shouting, "Milton! Thou should'st be living at this hour." Neither, as it turns out, need any Milton lover be too greatly cast down. History (like Collier) has not been kind to the Fall of Man-a satisfying and perhaps necessary myth which the modern world unwisely tends to dismiss as simple misinformation...