Word: targets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps little new can be said about Jane Eyre, for both the novel and its film adaptation have enjoyed a hardy popularity. Like most Victorian novels, Charlotte Bronte's book is a thinly-disguised social criticism with its target religious bigotry and self-righteousness. Miss Bronte was indeed indignant, and once described her novel as an attempt "to pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee." In true Dickens' fashion, she wrote about insufferable aunts, cruel schoolmasters, and orphans' asylums, and made them all as black as the corridors of Thornfield. But she added to her novel a vivid...
...best SAC crews are designated as "select" or "lead" crews. These crews are assigned specific targets in Russia or elsewhere, and must commit to memory all of the intricate details of getting on target and back to a friendly base. Members of select and lead crews usually get spot promotions to the next highest grade. But their skills are constantly being evaluated -in the squadron, in the wing, and every six months by a two-week special check by LeMay's personal examiners. If a select or lead crew falls behind in bombing, navigation or whatever, it loses...
...before take-off from Upper Heyford, the three-man, crews went through a two-hour briefing session on what they were supposed to do. Then the "scopehead" (SAC slang for the bombardier-observer who runs the radar and is responsible for putting the A-bomb on target) of each crew withdrew to calculate- his course and study the radar pictures of his plane's target so he would be able to recognize the target by radar...
...campaign starts from two motives: some programs are designed merely to attract more teachers, and some are a part of a growing revolt against standard U.S. teacher training. But whatever the motivations, the programs have one major target: to tap for the teaching profession the vast reservoir of ordinary liberal arts graduates.* Last week, along with Chicago, Northwestern University was joining up. Next fall it will start a master of arts in teaching program which will combine advanced graduate work with the courses necessary to meet Illinois teacher requirements. Among other programs now flourishing across...
...high-school boy who longed to shoot the ornaments off a Christmas tree was taken to the police pistol range, where an ornamented tree was set up for a target...