Word: targeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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NONFICTION 1. The Whole Truth and Nothing But, Hopper (1) 2. The Fire Next Time, Baldwin (3) 3. I Owe Russia $1,200, Hope (7) 4. Travels with Charley, Steinbeck (2) 5. You Are Not the Target, Huxley 6. The Great Hunger, Woodham-Smith (9) 7. The Living Sea, Cousteau (6) 8. Final Verdict, St. Johns (10) 9. The Feminine Mystique, Friedan 10. The Ordeal of Power, Hughes...
...Communists, Castroites and far-leftists, but later amended the order to cover only "activists and terrorists." The incident proved once more that Castro is determined to export his revolution, and that Venezuela's democratic, reform-minded President, whom the Reds have been after for years, is still target No. 1. As an Organization of American States committee recently reported: "There is no doubt that the Castro regime has chosen Venezuela as its primary objective...
...president for a year. Before very long, the 48-year-old school in the St. Louis suburb of Webster Groves was animatedly percolating with her fresh ideas and projects, and the appointment, which includes control of curriculum development, was made permanent. From the start, Sister Jacqueline took for her target the mediocre, the parochial, the tried-and-tired routines of learning: "We have too many ordinary Catholic women's colleges. We need to build a few terribly strong ones...
...city of Dresden, teeming with war prisoners and refugees, was of little military importance. It was so unlikely a target that its antiaircraft had been dismantled. Yet on the night of Feb. 13, 1945, three months before the war was to end, Allied bombers raided the city, demolishing eleven square miles of magnificent buildings and killing some 150,000 people, far more than the total number who died in either atomic raid on Japan and almost three times the number killed in all the German attacks on Britain...
Eventually, people became the target of the raids. In March 1942, the R.A.F. bombed the Hanseatic town of LLibeck, which had little industry but many people crammed into its old medieval quarters. The Luftwaffe replied with "Baedeker" raids on the English cathedral towns of Exeter and Canterbury. But ultimately, Göring's bomber force proved no match for the R.A.F. reinforced by U.S. planes. In 1942, 1,000 bombers devastated a great part of Cologne in 90 minutes (though the cathedral escaped serious damage). In 1943, 400 bombers were able to do comparable damage to other cities...