Word: targets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evasive action in the face of heavy German ack-ack and fighter interception; pilots would shirk from holding their course the five or six minutes necessary to make good, sound bombing runs. LeMay announced that he would bomb the Brest submarine yards himself, and that he would hit the target...
With cold courage LeMay held the course seven minutes, although planes around him were going down and his own plane was hit by flak. Upon landing he posted a new order, ruthless but necessary: no more evasive action over the targets. ("Having paid the price of admission to get over the target, we've got to get the benefits.") His men saw the casualty list go up, tagged the skipper "Old Ironpants." But LeMay got bombing results. He led many a flight himself, including the famed raid on the Messerschmitt plant at Regensburg in August...
...Target. The atom's energy, "the basic power of the universe," is contained in the nucleus. To release that energy, this unimaginably small object must be "split" or "smashed." For would-be atom-smashers, the atomic nucleus thus became a target. The problem was to find a bullet small and tough enough to blast it, and a gun powerful and accurate enough to aim that bullet...
Such a "gun" was invented in 1932 by University of California's brilliant young Ernest Orlando Lawrence. He called it a cyclotron. But the cyclotron failed to do more than chip off particles from the target nuclei, leaving the body of the nucleus intact, releasing comparatively little energy...
...greatest dragnet roundups of all time, the U.S. Army in Germany arrested 80,000 Germans last week. To prevent alarm-spreading, a half-million G.I.s first isolated the target communities by cutting their outside communications, then searched all houses in the U.S. zone, stopped every person moving on the streets and roads. Some 15,000,000 Germans were sifted through the screen...