Word: targeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...received even a C in archery; she should have flunked the course. I have met Charlene, and my club, the Hartford Archers of Hartford, Conn., gave her her first real lesson in archery. The photograph, taken after one lesson, shows the difference in form [see cutsl. After missing the target with the first arrow, she only missed the target once more during the entire lesson...
...land they sowed by nearly 10%, set out to make up for it by deep plowing and heavy fertilization. But in his theorizing. Mao had forgotten that China is desperately short of chemical fertilizers and even the simplest agricultural tools. Result was that although Peking's grain production target for 1960 is 300 million tons. China will be lucky to produce two-thirds that much. Admits the People's Daily: "If this year's summer harvest equals that of 1959 or is a little bigger-or even a little smaller-it will be a great victory...
...Force's costly Discoverer program was an immensely sophisticated effort, but so simple to score that it seemed to be just one failure after another. Its expense, climbing to $100 million this year alone, made it a target for cost-conscious critics, and the army of carpers swelled with each failure and half-success...
...phrases parodying academic jargon ("We must learn to differentiate between generic and relative terms"). Between jokes, he draws on a fat little glossary of verbal rialtos that counterpoint the laughter, indicate his attitude to the material. "Wild, huh?" he will say, standing in the ruins of his most recent target, or "You can't go too far, fellas," or "Is there any group I haven't offended...
Died. Leland Olds, 69, regulation-minded Federal Power Commission member from 1939 to 1949 (mostly as chairman), a zealous New Dealer and longtime target of private power interests, whose third-term nomination was rejected by the Senate following hearings centering on his heavy-breathing socialist writings of the 1920s ("The owners exist only [as] a privileged class of parasites whose idleness and dissipation become an increasing stench in the nostrils of the people."); of a heart attack; in Bethesda...