Word: targeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Democratic Party, began denouncing his fellow Democrats, and has been doing it ever since. Richard Richards, said Yorty. "not only has a double name, he is a master of double talk." Democratic Governor Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown is a favorite Yorty target: "Unless Brown intends to start conducting himself like a big-leaguer, he had better stay in the minor leagues." In 1960 Yorty took out after Democratic Presidential Candidate John Kennedy: "He has destroyed the integrity of the Democratic Party by the abuse of the power of lavish amounts of money, and a calculated exploitation of his religious affiliation...
President Kennedy's target date for a month-long summer vacation is Aug. 1. The summer White House will be at Hyannisport, but the President will work at nearby Otis Air Force Base...
...colloquial flair, still gaudily bedizened by the flippest headline writers in the business (SINGER CROAKS ON HIGH c, ran above an early story about an opera star, who collapsed onstage and died in the wings). The paper is still so accurately aimed at Patterson's hand-picked target-the Manhattan subway rider-that News circulation plummets 300,000 or so on holidays, when the straphangers stay home...
...With Laos all but written off, the Administration is confronted with deciding whether or not to take a stand in Communism's next Southeast Asia target: South Viet Nam, already infested with Communist guerrillas and terrorists (see THE WORLD). The geography and politics are more favorable than in Laos: South Viet Nam faces on the sea, and the government of President Ngo Dinh Diem is intensely committed to the task of fighting Communism...
...their embarrassment over the mutiny, some Frenchmen looked hard for some scapegoat who was not French. Much of the French press, egged on by some French officials, tried at length to implicate the U.S., zeroing in on that favorite target of recent weeks, the Central Intelligence Agency...