Word: targeted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Target. The ugliness of the act aside, the killer of Medgar Evers could only have hurt his own blind cause. The national reaction was instantaneous. President Kennedy called it "appalling." In Mississippi, even segregationist Governor Ross Barnett denounced this "apparently dastardly act." Rewards totaling $21,000 were posted for information leading to the arrest of the killer...
...College, varsity football player and onetime insurance agent, was quite a man. And he had premonitions of martyrdom. "I'm not afraid of dying," he recently said. "It might do some good." As the N.A.A.C.P.'s only fulltime worker in Mississippi, he was a constant target for threats, but he pursued his course nevertheless. He directed a big civil rights rally in Jackson recently that brought in such big-name Negroes as Lena Horne. Only a few weeks before his death, somebody tossed a gasoline-filled bottle into his carport (it did not explode...
...Target. Shielded from the sun's glare by a special awning at the White Sands Missile Range, he saw an Army Honest John missile land directly on target in a burst of phosphorescence 71/2 miles away and a Nike Hercules intercept a sister missile overhead. Then off to the Navy's show-sub hunters firing rocket-launched torpedoes and Phantom fighters screaming above the carrier Kitty Hawk at the speed of sound to fire their Sparrow III missiles with deadly accuracy...
...better? I think '68 might be the year, but it's too early to say yet. Even if I wanted it, now would be the wrong time to show that. The minute it becomes clear that a man is trying to get the nomination, he's a prime target for all his enemies. Being in the Senate, I'd be a sitting duck for everyone who didn't like me or who wants to hurt conservatism. And there are even Republicans who would go after...
More than $11 million was ear-marked for financial aid to students, nearly triple the target figure of $4 million; the funds sought to support athletics were easily raised. Both of these projects indirectly helped the top priority goal of the Program: the raising of Faculty salaries. Endowment funds of $16 million to be raised through the Program were assigned directly to Faculty salaries. This goal was not met, and a wage increase for Faculty members was financed partly through further increases in tuition and the use of unrestricted endowment income released from the scholarship and athletic programs by specific...