Word: targeted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they did against the Minutemen, the Crimson reverted to a helter-skelter playground offense when Villanova applied pressure. Desperate long-range jump shots often reentered the atmosphere far from their target, and sloppy dribbling caused 19 Harvard turnovers...
...spectacle of youthful radicals, backed by an aged and atavistic theocrat, humiliating and terrorizing American diplomatic personnel will have become a symbol of U.S. weakness. On the battlefield of domestic politics, the past two weeks offer Jimmy Carter's bi-partisan legion of opponents an almost irresistible target for sniping. All a skillful stump speaker has to do is lament "the decline of American power and prestige," and his listeners will grit their teeth at the memory of Uncle Sam, a goat's skull for a head, burning in effigy in Tehran while the perpetrators, in a dramatic...
Worse, Soviet oil production is falling below the target set in the 1976-80 five-year plan, and Moscow has begun to put a ceiling on its shipments. The East Europeans find it difficult to get more from OPEC because the cartel does not want to sell for Communist currencies. What can OPEC do with zlotys or rubles...
Vellucci, who waged a similar campaign against DNA research three years ago, found his target for the evening in Harvard radiation safety officer Jacob A. Shapiro...
...1960s Capp soured on his liberal friends. Said he: "They seemed to me smug and sanctimonious." He traded in his old Establishment targets, like the baby-kissing Senator Jack S. Phogbound, and replaced them with the likes of Radical Folk Singer Joanie Phoanie, who sang of protest between mouthfuls of caviar, and S.W.I.N.E.-Students Wildly Indignant About Nearly Everything. A favorite target of campus hecklers, Capp received notoriety during a lecture tour in 1971, pleading guilty to attempted adultery after a woman student accused him of making indecent advances. As Capp became more conservative, Li'l Abner...