Word: goals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...caves for its defense, yet they abandoned these, and confined their resistance to artillery fire from other caves in nearby hills. There were only sharp local actions, in which men died, honored but unsung. There had been as yet no major Jap stand on the road to Manila. That goal was almost within range of MacArthur's field glasses...
...much perhaps as anyone else, Carr Vattel Van Anda made the New York Times the grey eminence it has become. Adolph Ochs set the goal: "All the News That's Fit to Print"; Van Anda got the news, saw that it was fit, and printed it. He treated the Versailles Treaty with the competitive zest of a tabloid editor covering a beautiful blonde's murder trial, used 24 telegraph and telephone lines to transmit the full text from Washington, and gave it 62 columns of type. No other U.S. newspaper ran it in full...
Joseph Stalin had decided, probably months before it started, that the goal of his winter offensive was Berlin, with an end to the German war by spring. To that task the Red Army labored long, carefully building the tremendous weight of arms that this week was grinding over the enemy...
...That is, and that always has been, the policy of this Government in all countries. It is not only our aim and in our interest; it is our only care. It is to that goal that we try to make our way across all difficulties, obstacles and perils of the long road. Trust the people. Make sure they have a fair chance to decide their destiny without being terrorized from either quarter or regimented...
...bare essential, "Owen Wingrave" is the epitaph of a throwback on the British military tradition. Before descending to specific criticism, it may be well to point out that this is not a pacifist play. It attacks the ideals of imperialist wars, not wars whose goal is peace. As Owen remarks, "I find the ideals of war benighted, stupid, hideous; and find our tribute to those who wage it--when they wage it destructively enough--a worship of gods as false as the idols of savages." But he has in mind the wars fought by his ancestors, fought in the classic...