Word: targeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Atrocity Target. The closeness of the election may keep Ceylon from a long-desired civil peace, for both leading parties are a long way from the 76 seats needed to form a government. But voters had at least decisively rejected the chaos and frequent strikes of Marxist and left-wing government. Most effective campaigner was the United Nationalists' leader, Dudley Shelton Senanayake, 47, who may become prime minister. In 1952 he had briefly succeeded his famous father, Don Stephen Senanayake (Ceylon's first Prime Minister), who died after a fall from a horse. Then the son had gone...
...Cuban embassy could pick up a copy of the slick magazine, INRA, and read the same thought in words more to the point: "The Panama Canal Zone constitutes ... a plunder of Panama." From both Cairo and Havana last week the attack was on, and in both cases the target was the same: the U.S. Panama Canal Zone...
Palmer's high-priced performance required both steadiness and flash. It took sure hands on the sun-baked courses of the Southwest, where the ball rolls forever if it is hit down the middle; and Palmer was on target often enough to win the Palm Springs Classic and the Texas Open. It called for a spectacular change of pace at Pensacola, where he came from behind on moist, slow Gulf Coast greens, banked on long, bold putts to rack up a seven-under-par 65 in the second round to take the tournament by a single stroke...
Collected around a nucleus of University of Chicago alumni, the players stand on a high platform: "We are Aristotelian in the true sense; we entertain while we instruct. We slip the message in between the laughs. Our target is pomposity." Chicagoans like both the laughs and the message; the group's sharp entertainment goes far toward relieving Chicago's country-cousin complex as the U.S.'s second city. Even the Tribune praised the show for its "sparkle and sauciness, speed and irreverence." Oedipus Revisited. If the Second City comedians have a trademark, it is "The Living Newspaper...
...sound-and silence-with the skill and sensitivity of a composer. With subtle verve and dazzling control, he can alternate dreamy love with Gothic horror or wonderfully bawdy hilarity. He is equally at home with Wildean wit and low Shakespearean vaudeville. Like a gadfly, Bergman buzzes about his favorite target: the normal, healthy, inadequate male. ("Grown men are so rare," one of his women says sweetly to her husband, "that we pick the child who suits...