Word: objectives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...powerful friend left. That was Hussein Makki, the No. 2 man in the regime, Mossadegh's personal representative at Abadan, his top vote-getter in Teheran. Makki liked to say that anyone who opposed his boss ought to be killed. Makki was also ambitious. The most conspicuous object in his living room is a six-foot, gilt-framed portrait of his craggily handsome head...
...myself think that I acted rightly and I believe many others think so too." May tried to justify his delivery of vital atomic information to Russian espionage agents (TIME, Jan. 5) by saying: "I was wholeheartedly concerned with securing victory over Nazi Germany and Japan . . . My object now is to obtain as soon as possible an opportunity of doing useful scientific work, in which I can be of some service to this country and to my fellow...
...surprise that Canada's Finance Minister Douglas Abbott, returning from the recent Commonwealth Economic Conference, could report that other delegates had peppered him constantly with questions about Canada's progress. "At no time in our history," said Abbott, "have we been the object of such interest and respect in the eyes of other nations of the free world...
...most successful clergymen in the U.S. In his 30 years of pastoral work, he has swept into churches from Pittsburgh to Pomona, Calif, with the kind of contagious enthusiasm that transforms backsliders into church elders, and the kind of organizing ability that soon makes any church deficit an object of purely historical interest...
Outside the Orbits. The Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. has long been aware of Dr. Evans' talents. Last year, on the 150th anniversary of Presbyterian home missions in the U.S., his fellow Presbyterians discussed using them in a new and nationwide ministry. Their object: to reach the millions of Americans who need some religious help but who exist outside the neatly traced orbits of local church congregations...