Word: targets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sharp wind blew over Travers Island, over the traps of the New York Athletic Club, over the shoulders of squad after squad of gunners competing, on two days of sunlight, gusts and shadow last week, for the amateur clay target championship of the U.S. Businessmen, farmers, clerks, lawyers, fine shots all, they came out for their turns in squads of five. All day for two days the wind bore the steady blam, blam, blam-blam of a little war as the shooters moved, a serious-minded army about 180 strong, from stand to stand at the club's eight...
Naval aircraft in bombing maneuvers used to fly at a safe altitude directly over their target, "lay their eggs," hope for a hit. Rarely were they rewarded. Newer strategy is to dive upon the enemy battleship, release the bombs, pull up sharply?the bomb continuing the path of the dive. Under this terrific strain, wings of an ordinary airplane would crumple like paper...
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Like many an oriental cult, the Persian Bahai movement dates itself back to a ''forerunner," one Bab, who was martyred at the age of 31, "his breast becoming the target of a thousand bullets." Bab, in 1844, sagely predicted the coming of the Founder, Baha'u'llah. The Founder spent most of his life in banishment, gathering followers and codifying the cult's beliefs. When he died in 1892 he left the faith in the hands of his son, Abdul-Baha, the Expounder & Promoter, who languished in a Turkish gaol until the release...
Though Mr. Hughes was the bull's eye at which his critics fired, the target was much larger than his personality. He merely served as a symbol of what many a Senator violently disliked in the Supreme Court itself. Even after the Senate had confirmed his nomination, senatorial hostility toward the court continued to run on in a series of resentful threats about curbing its enormous authority...