Word: targets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...biplane. "Flying isn't nearly as much fun as it was when you had an open cockpit and goggles." As chief of a bomber group in World War II, he was often compelled to decide how many airmen's lives it was worth to destroy an enemy target. "He would sit down on one of the kitchen chairs in the operations room," wrote one of those who watched. "For anything up to ten minutes, he would quite literally do nothing at all. He simply sat there and thought. Everyone instinctively fell silent. Then, very quietly, he told...
...story to Harvard-as old, indeed, as the whole university tradition. The concept of academic tenure is a delicate one that has grown up partly because the teacher has historically been a favorite target for attack. It is simply another way of saying that a man's mind cannot exist half slave and half free, that if a scholar is to operate effectively on the frontiers of his field, he must also be accorded the rights of any other citizen to differ and dissent outside that field. Harvard has refused to fire four teachers who invoked the Fifth Amendment...
Like many a young pilot, Knoke made an idol of his plane, a Messerschmitt 109 which he called Good Emil. He was so scared and excited on his first mission, a strafing run over the Thames estuary, that he forgot to fire at the target. But he soon tasted blood in Russia, flying alongside Stuka bombers as they chopped up Soviet columns. He was vastly enjoying the war when They-the anonymous, know-nothing They which is GHQ to every operational airman-shipped him back to Germany to patrol the North Sea. There Knoke learned that boredom is the first...
Four years ago this week, an obscure Wisconsin Senator named Joe McCarthy turned up in Wheeling, W.Va. to claim that he had "here in my hand" the names of 205 Communists in the State Department. Left-wing Democrats picked Joe as a nice fat target and right-wing Republicans helped build him into a hero. Last week, at Washington's National Airport, McCarthy stepped out of his Texas-donated Cadillac with his bride on his arm. stepped into the Plymouth Oil Co.'s private DC-3 and headed off on a nine-speech tour, which the Republican National...
...Charges filled the air that Schine had goldbricked his way through his rookie days. Fellow draftees were quoted as saying that Recruit Schine got a pass every weekend (and left the post spectacularly in a chauffeur-driven Cadillac), skipped all but one stint at guard duty, goofed off on target practice and kept hinting darkly that he was really only hanging around to check morale. Snooping on his own, Columnist Drew Pearson had reported that Schine's old junketeering gumshoe pal, McCarthy Aide Roy Cohn, called the commandant often to inquire about Schine's welfare: "The Senator wants...