Word: goals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fourth bill would outlaw any form of closed or union shop. To this one, above all, union leaders were wildly opposed. One goal of all union organizing is the closed shop. Outlawing the closed shop seemed to them like eliminating the baskets in a basketball game...
...into the past is the only way out. Were the occupation forces to withdraw, a demagogue might find fruitful soil, as Adolf Hitler did 20 years ago. Given a leader, the Germans would again follow, as they have followed before. But today they have no leadership whatever and no goal. If they are given a goal, they may follow democracy. In any case, as long as the occupation forces remain and are alert, Naziism and militarism will remain what it is now: a dream of a few among millions who don't think...
...mule drove for months. Sometimes mules went lame crossing the rocky outcroppings in northeastern Bolivia. When that happened, the troop would halt while the animals were roped, thrown, and treated to hoof repairs. In the autumn of 1946, they were still in Trinidad, Bolivia, 400 miles from their goal...
...powerful, 175-lb. French Canadian, Maurice Richard is deservedly the highest-paid player in hockey ($9,000 a year). He has a whiplike getaway: in three strides he can be at full speed; he doesn't telegraph his goal shots: the puck is in flight almost before the goalie knows Richard has snapped his stick. His only serious shortcoming, which Howie Morenz did not share, is a weakness on back-checking; critics call him a "one-way player." But his scoring strength offsets that defect...
Though Dean Russell did not say so, somewhere along the line his "educated for democracy" students might also want to pick up reading and writing-and maybe even a little of what Oxford's Sir Richard Livingstone calls education's first goal: "the power of distinguishing . . . what is first-rate from what...