Word: target
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Because of its sentimental value to the Band and because it signifies Harvard's pride in its Band, the drum is always a target for students from rival colleges. It is kept securely in the Band room, especially when certain teams come to town, but on the field, it's open to attack...
...ranks as one of the Eisenhower Administration's greatest achievements that the U.S. managed to make up for the lost years and close the military-missile gap. The military job of a ballistic missile is not to go to the moon but to hit an earthly target from a launching site elsewhere on the earth, and U.S. missiles appear to be about as fit for that job as their Soviet counterparts. But in concentrating on closing the gap in military-missile technology, the Eisenhower Administration neglected the challenge of space. When the U.S. undertook its first serious space project...
...persons, the poet and the patron. But Shelley and Byron both pulled a switch on the historic arrangement. In their circle of literary liberals, they had all the talent and they had all the cash. Percy Bysshe Shelley was heir to ?6,000 a year and thus a natural target for any advanced thinker down on his luck-including Editor-Author Leigh Hunt and Mary's father; William Godwin's outraged rebel's respectability never stopped him from sponging on Shelley...
...times it seemed that only a miracle could save Amherst from defeat, but the miracle always materialized. Crimson lineman Larry Ekpebu had two on-target shots knocked down late in the game, neither of them by the Amherst goalie. As time was running out in the third quarter, Ekpebu, playing wing, sent a hard cross toward the Lord Jeff nets. The ball hit defender Walter Barnette and seemed to be headed straight for the goal, but it ticked the post just hard enough to be deflected safely away...
...French commander, the Marquis de Montcalm, waited for reinforcements, he might still have won. But he ordered the regiments available (some 4,000 men) to charge; the British held, then advanced. Their 32-year-old general, attired in a splendid new uniform and waving a cane, was an easy target for snipers. Just before victory was certain he fell, a musket ball through his lung. (Hours later, the Marquis de Montcalm also died of his wounds.) It was. Author Hibbert says, the death Wolfe always wanted; months before, he had written in a clumsy paraphrase of Horace: "Those who perish...