Word: target
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hate Margaret She'd make a good target...
...Washington Post and Times Herald, which runs Columnist Drew Pearson on its comic page, let him get on the editorial page last week-as the target of a devastating letter. Signed "Nostradamus" (but known to the Post, which would identify him only as "a Washington magazine editor"), the letter writer noted that Pearson was reputed to score 85% in his "predictions of things to come." By recalling the columnist's Jan. 1 predictions for 1956, Nostradamus showed that Pearson had indeed approached 85%-but wrong. Among the predictions...
...Cantor David Kusevitsky. Israel Night, its sponsor, the New York Metropolitan Council of B'nai Brith, had announced, was part of a six-week bond-selling drive, which will be climaxed on Dec. 6 by the Sixth Annual Hanukkah Festival in Madison Square Garden. The fund-raisers' target: an astonishing $8,000,000 for Israel...
...Oregon, cold-eyed Wayne Morse, 56, the maverick ex-Republican marked as the G.O.P.'s prime target in the Senate races, withstood the Western Eisenhower surge, to defeat, by more than 20,000 votes, Ikeman Douglas McKay, who had resigned as Secretary of the Interior at Ike's urging to take on the bloodiest senatorial battle in Oregon's history...
...organization was set up and named Amilcar (after Hannibal's father). While diplomats attended London conferences and took appeals to the U.N., the British-French forces gathered on Cyprus. Tanks were painted sand-yellow, occupation currency was printed, plans were made for the requisitioning of civilian air transports. The target was Egypt; the plans at this stage had nothing to do with Israel...