Word: targeted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sooner had the planes retired than three PT boats appeared from the northeast, spraying Liberty with machine-gun fire and launching two torpedoes, one of which found its target. It tore a 39-ft. wound amidships below the water line...
...Welland Canal provided it with a convenient bypass around Niagara Falls. Even so, their numbers remained relatively small until the 1950s, when the sea lamprey-also an oceanic interloper-wiped the Great Lakes clean of the trout and burbot that were feeding on alewives. Too small a target for the lamprey (which is now being eliminated by chemical controls), and left with no natural enemies, the alewives promptly began a population explosion...
...played for smaller stakes at great cost and scant return (see box). One investment it could not liquidate, however, was the Middle East. With the decline of Western influence and the rise of Arab nationalism in the 1950s, the volatile, petroliferous Moslem world became an irresistible and comparatively safe target for Russia's rulers. Their main goal, in the Middle East as elsewhere, was to displace U.S. influence. The ultimate cost of Russia's aid to the Arab world was between $3 billion and $4 billion...
Marvin eventually wins respect from them and from his superiors, but only after the mission has been accomplished-at a terrible cost. The first of the twelve dies as they parachute into occupied France. The other eleven stay alive long enough to enter the target, a huge château staffed and stuffed with German brass. Abruptly the place begins to chatter with crossfire and exploding grenades. One by one, the dirty dozen get knocked off as they kill most of the officers and blow the building to bits in some of the loudest, bloodiest battle scenes since Darryl Zanuck...
...target of their wrath was not so much Park himself as some candidates of Park's Democratic Republican Party (D.R.P.). In the Assembly elections two weeks ago, the D.R.P. won 130 of the Assembly's 175 seats; that was a gain of 20-far more than expected. The minority, more traditionalist New Democratic Party (N.D.P.) accused the winners of stuffing ballot boxes, doctoring tally sheets and bribing voters and vote counters alike in at least 20 of the country's 131 constituencies. Unless Park called new elections, the N.D.P. threatened, its 44 representatives would boycott the Assembly...