Word: aims
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years' imprisonment and/or $5,000 fine each) on the basis of their concerted refusal to talk (three of the 21 were also indicted on straight perjury charges). By that legal device, the Government hopes to put some of the top U.S. thugs out of circulation-certainly a worthy aim. Yet achieving that aim might prove impossibly difficult. Although circumstantial evidence is given substantial weight in conspiracy trials, it must nonetheless be proved that the Apalachin mobsters have refused to talk through group decision, not as individuals just trying to get out of trouble...
...aim of the conference as we see it lies in separating out those questions that weigh most heavily on the relations between states . . . The Soviet government believes that the question of the conclusion of a [World War II] peace treaty with the two German states should be taken up first and the Berlin question be settled on this basis by transforming West Berlin into a free city...
...deadly sins with which Mr. Gromyko charges this Western proposal is what I might call the sin of being a package plan . . . All we have done, which indeed complicates the problems, has only one aim: to reply in advance to the Soviet government's objections and allay its fears. We understand perfectly well that reunification of Germany in freedom arouses anxiety in our Russian colleagues . . . [So] we thought it better to attach to German reunification a number of provisions relating to security and disarmament which would be likely to allay these Soviet misgivings...
Even when they aim strictly at giving land to the landless, most Latin American countries lack the capital and skill needed to make land reform work. The new landowner rarely gets the needed seeds, credit, machinery, farm animals: Unchecked, he often sells his land back to the estate owner...
This year's Admissions Committee deliberations were unusual in two respects. For the first time in recent years, the Committee did not have a definite numerical goal to aim for, with Bundy calling for an increase of "at least 50" and not more than 75. Also, the so-called "forced commuter" was eliminated from the Committee's consideration, so that the 50 commuters in the Class of 1963 will be those who prefer living at home...