Word: targets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vocabulary of professed anti-Communism that by the facts of the struggle for individual freedom. Harvard was under violent press and political attack by men who either misunderstood or misrepresented the nature of the issue and the realities of the decision, and the new President was himself a target of abuse. Nathan Pusey met this situation with a serene and quiet courage which did as much as the earlier acts of specific decision to affirm the continuing integrity of the University. Stubborn in the right, strong in his convictions as an administrator and as a man, bold where the freedom...
...GOVERNMENT DRIVE for economy is reaching into the dustiest nooks and crannies. Latest target is the daily Treasury balance statement, which since 1916 has been issued with a two-day lag, but will now be three days late, thus allowing the Treasury Department to lay off three employees in its Bureau of Accounts. Saving: $10,000 a year...
...French supplies and many paratroop reinforcements drifted into the enemy lines. In one sector the Communists were only about 700 yards from the French center, and the front lines were often less than 40 yards apart. The Red field gunners and mortarmen had perhaps the most concentrated target in all Indo-China: the French perimeter was only 2,000 yards wide. The French artillery was ineffective by comparison: it had lost about half of its guns. The surviving French tanks were bogged down in the muck of the early monsoon, and French tactical air was often blinded in the haze...
...Targets Guaranteed. For fees ranging from $2,000 (minimum) to $15,000 (for churches with more than 5,000 families), Wells puts on a thump-and-slogan campaign which usually exceeds what a church expects to raise, and guarantees (all but the smallest churches) to hit the target...
Part of the reason is clear from the way the investigation was first handled. The chief target was to be Section 608, and 608 is Democratic "dirt." Expiring conveniently in 1950, it leaves the present Administration without sin and free to cast stones as it sees...