Word: targeted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Atlanta after passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Maddox became a hero to the racists at that time by giving white customers at his fried-chicken restaurant ax handles-he called them "Pickrick drumsticks"-to keep Negroes out. Georgia Republicans, figuring that he would be an easier target than Arnall for G.O.P. Candidate Howard ("Bo") Callaway in November, drove up to polling booths by the thousands to vote for Mad dox-many in cars bearing Callaway bumper stickers. By one estimate, they cast 100,000 votes for the balding bigot, enough to give Maddox a startling...
...first G.O.P. Senator since Reconstruction, would enhance liberal influence in Democratic ranks and ultimately help to open the way for a genuine two-party system in Texas politics. Coolly watching the Democratic fight from the sidelines, Tower says simply that he "welcomes support from wherever it occurs." No easy target, Candidate Carr, 48, piled up more votes (1,900,000) in 1964 than any other office seeker in the state's history. All the same, there are some 30,000 to 40,000 hard-core liberal Democratic voters. In a tight race, they could well ditch what they derisively...
...force of 160 million electron volts. But after leaving the cyclotron, the protons travel a precise and predictable distance before they release their power. Careful positioning of the patient allows the beam to pierce the skin with little damage before releasing all its energy and destroying a specific target deep inside the body-such as the pituitary gland, perhaps, or a brain tumor...
...soon the indignance subsided and everyone began to look for justifications of Mahoney's victory. Baltimorians blamed CORE, which had made Baltimore (30 per cent Negro) their summer "target city." CORE, they said, got the whites excited and insecure with its demonstrations and turned them against Sickles and Finan, who seemed too sympathetic to the cause. The Chicago Tribune said in its lead editorial the day after the election: "The message from Maryland should serve as a warning to the marchers and headline seekers among civil rights leaders that their present methods are not helping their cause...
...million service workers, compared to a target rate of 1.88 million...