Word: targeter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Target. The fresh view of the universe was made possible by the successful launching of the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory, which began probing the heavens with eleven telescopes while circling the earth in a 480-mile-high orbit-well above the confining atmosphere. Unfolding its solar panels, the OAO obediently performed operations that assured ground controllers that it was in good working order. Then the 4,400-lb. spacecraft turned to its first assignment. Rolling slowly in space, it sought out two reference stars and unerringly swung its telescopes toward a bright Southern Hemisphere star named Miaplacidus...
Locked onto its target by a combination of control jets and spinning inertia wheels, OAO for several hours examined the ultraviolet emissions, telemetering its findings back to earth...
...time that it turned to its next target, a super giant star named Iota Carina, the orbiting observatory had already transmitted a record amount of ul traviolet data. In the previous 15 years, scientists had accumulated only three hours of ultraviolet stargazing during the flights of 40 telescope-equipped sounding rockets, which briefly poke their noses above the atmosphere before falling back to earth...
...organize strikes against companies that had effectively deprived their employees of any mode of redress other than coercion. It is because there existed orderly -- if slow and constricted -- procedures for change, which had demonstrated neither their impotence nor their indifference, that the sit-in is indefensible--not because the target happened to be us, the professors, instead of Dow. That these points should have to be explained to one's students is normal--I have learned enough from them, especially in the realm of moral concern and idealistic commitment, to insist in return, without condescension, that they learn some essional...
...guerrillas' disadvantage, the bleak, rocky West Bank, where they target most of their operations, does not provide good cover, and the Israelis are a formidably efficient enemy. They claim to have killed or captured 2,650 fedayeen and tend to dismiss them as amateurs. "We cannot dignify them with the name guerrilla or commando," says an Israeli officer. "The Arabs who cross over show no daring. In that respect, they are nowhere near Viet Cong standards." The Israelis do respect Arafat, however. Their intelligence network has twice reported him on Israeli soil, and twice he escaped a dragnet. "Anyone...