Word: targeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decision upholding the constitutionality of the 1957 Civil Rights Act as "crap" (though a thoughtful clerk recorded it as "claptrap"). Arkansas' William Fulbright, time-tested segregationist, took the occasion to lambaste President Eisenhower for turning the U.S. into "a 20th century Babylon, headless and heartless, a big fat target of the ably led Communist world and the clamoring, poverty-ridden new states...
Military Retreat. His plane at the ready, Bulli met with the commander of the alert crew that he relieved, and received the Positive Control envelope (containing Fail Safe procedures, codes, frequencies) and the black combat data box (target information, maps, radar photos). Signing for it in the presence of a supervising officer, Bulli, 37, now legally assumed responsibility for the thermonuclear bomb in the bay. The spring was drawn: Plane 264 was ready to roll, had a full load of fuel and a multimegaton bomb aboard that is equal in force to ten Atlas ICBMs...
...find, as one officer says, that alert duty is usually the time that "your furnace at home goes out or the dog gets lost, or your wife gets moody on the phone." There is no time for boredom. Some sit in seclusion in locked-door study rooms, poring over target data (they never discuss targets with other crews; no crew knows the target of another). And all the time they wait for the horn. There is no itchy tension: their sharp reflexes have been honed by intense training, their character hardened by one of SAC's most successful ingredients...
...were in the landing pattern when the klaxon sounded the real thing, they would have to be refueled and their crews would need rest. These planes are front-line sentries; to take them into the air would be like ordering front-line combat troops to empty their pieces in target practice...
...HERE IN THIS AREA TAKES VARIOUS FORMS, INCLUDING WHAT PRINCE MOHAMMED AND MYSELF HAVE FACED IN THE WAY OF SLANDEROUS ATTACKS SUCH AS THE RUMORS YOU HAVE PRINTED ABOUT MY BROTHER, WHICH EMANATED SOLELY AND SUBVERSIVELY FROM POLITICAL RIVALRIES IN THE ARAB WORLD. MONARCHY, NOT MY BROTHER, WAS THE TARGET. I AM ASTONISHED THAT YOUR EDITORS DID NOT FIRST INVESTIGATE THEM, AND SECOND RECOGNIZE THEIR PURPOSE...