Word: objectives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ready money. Upon my honour, I never was so much in love." When Bozzy set off to Ireland to make a formal bid for the nymph, he took with him his favorite cousin, Margaret Montgomerie. Sweet Peggy acted as his counselor-and kibitzed so cutely that Bozzy forgot the object of his journey and proposed to Peggy instead. Their marriage contract bore the stern signature "Sam. Johnson. Witness...
...there be some who object that the beasts and children of the wilderness want not the shining light of Christian wisdom. They contend that it is impossible to convert without the primary agency of grace. It is strongly felt that the savages have not had the preparation and education necessary to achieve grace, and that therefore they will be unable to comprehend or enjoy the abstruse doctrines which we must propound. Those who oppose the spreading of doctrine say that our construction of the Gospel will find the savage inert, with his wick untrimmed, unprepared for the marriage, and generally...
...Speed Ahead. On Truk. in the Caroline Islands, War Surplus Salvager Oliver C. Stine ordered a native workman to chop apart an awkwardly shaped, 1,000-lb. chunk of rusted scrap, took over the acetylene torch himself when the workman failed to make satisfactory progress, got positive results whenthe object's outer casing began smoking and split open, hurriedly stopped salvaging when he peered inside, recognized a Japanese torpedo warhead...
Earlier Abba Eban, Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, told the Assembly that his country's sole object in invading Egypt on Monday was put an end to the constant pressure of commando raids that have threatened Israel's existance over the last eight years...
...after a year and a half on Broadway still sells out nightly. Such phone calls as these have led to one of the last great black markets in the U.S.a ticket market operated by scalpers and fostered by businessmen living in an expense-account economy, where price is no object...