Word: targeted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...White House, and the occasion was that extraordinary Festival of the Arts. Hung on the walls of a ground-floor White House corridor was Peter Kurd's carefully representational Nito Herrera in Springtime, and right next to that was Avant-Garde Artist Jasper Johns's Target with Four Faces, an eerie encaustic on newspaper fixed onto canvas. Down the corridor, in the space traditionally occupied by a life-size portrait of President Millard Fillmore, was Mark Rothko's shimmering abstract Ochre...
...eight-jet colossus of the Strategic Air Command whose normal function is toting H-bombs round the world in constant cold war vigilance against attack on the U.S. On this mission, the Stratoforts-30 of them-carried conventional bombs and the seeds of a quite unconventional controversy. For their target was one against which most airmen would never think of employing strategic bombers...
Lyndon Said Go. The big bombers' target was "the O.K. Corral,"* a desolate 1-by-2-mi. patch of wilderness just 33 miles north of Saigon. There, according to intelligence reports, as many as four Viet Cong battalions were massing in the dense thicket near Bencat for another devastating attack on government positions along Route 14, a mere 30 miles north of Saigon. In the hope of avoiding a disaster like the one fortnight ago at nearby Dongxoai (rhymes with wrong's why), U.S. planners in Saigon searched for a means to trap the concealed Communist troops...
...Stratoforts swept in at 15,000 ft. from their base on Guam, 2,600 miles away. En route, two of the $8,000,000 planes collided while refueling off the Philippines, and over the target area another plane was unable to release its bombload because of a mechanical failure. The remaining bombers unloaded a torrent of high explosives-270 tons in all-on the tangled forest floor. Then they wheeled for home, confident that they had dispersed the Viet Cong and killed many. But had they...
...sign that the Viet Cong would test their perimeter, and through the long, hot days the troops were getting bored. As a precaution they were digging their foxholes a little bit deeper. As one paratrooper put it: "The longer we stay here, the more of a target we become...