Word: target
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...potato." Noting that Britain has already launched a nuclear-energy program which by the end of 1965 will be producing roughly a quarter of Britain's electricity, the three experts said that the Euratom countries must do likewise. Since their population is three times Britain's, their target must be substantially greater. They called for 15 million kw. of nuclear electricity...
Climax in Civil Rights. Today Herbert Brownell is nearing the high moment of his career. He is out in the open; he knows it and he likes it. He is the personal target of Southern opposition to the civil rights program now in Congress. He is determined to fight it through. "This program," says Brownell. "may be remembered longer than anything we do in Washington...
...drinking after doctors told him that he had cirrhosis of the liver. But it was too late to go back: Joe McCarthy was a sick man. Once capable of frenetic energies, he found that a single Senate speech (a lone, weak attempt to prevent the promotion of an old target, Ralph Zwicker, to major general) was so exhausting that he had to rest...
...year term as the world's highest ranking Methodist, president of the Council of Bishops, was cleared of Stewart's charges by his district committee. But to the Pennsylvania-born Rev. James Stewart, 51. who won his B.D. at Yale Divinity School, Bishop Smith is only a target of opportunity in a larger campaign against what he calls a widespread practice in the Methodist Church, i.e., local ministers being expected to chip in with presents for the bishop from time to time. Love gifts from congregations to pastors-including TV sets and tours of the Holy Land...
...Phil Haughey behind the plate has handled pitchers excellently and presented an easy target, always staying in control of the game...