Word: targets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fear that he is about to surrender Suez, the speech went relatively unchallenged. Clement Attlee could find nothing more severe to say than that Churchill had returned from Bermuda "a Father Christmas without presents." All was quiet, except for the area around Nye Bevan. Churchill's favorite target on the left. During his speech, Churchill remarked that "it would be a great pity if . . . relations between Britain and the United States . . . were to be increasingly expressed in what I might call Bevanite-McCarthy terms...
...contrast between the two schools was clear, but even if Shaw had been just as good a school as Sousa, the parents of Spottswood Boiling and his friends would not have been satisfied. They were attacking something deeper than disparity of facilities. Their target was the principle of segregation. Said Spottswood's widowed mother, Mrs. Sarah Boiling, a $57.60-3-week bookbinder for the Federal Government's General Services Administration: "I think that to know how to deal with all people you've got to start as a child in school. In school you learn...
...Even with the most powerful defenses, an agressor in possession of the effective number could place his bombs on the chosen target to cause hideous damage. Should such an atomic attack be launched against the United States, its reaction would be swift and resolute...
...destroyed in American political life," Cherington warns, "or he will in due course destroy American Constitutional government. McCarthy, Jenner and Co. are not really interested in capturing Communists, they're interested in venting hate, frustration, and anti-Semitism upon anyone or anything which appears to be a possible target." McCarthy seeks the Presidency in '56 "as a stepping stone to unconstitutional, treasonable seizure of power. This is the type of issue which could well result in civil war," Cherington insists in all seriousness, but agrees, "We'll get this man before it becomes necessary to take to the field...
Through his 39 years of earthly reign Father Divine has hurled many a curse at the conspicuously unbelieving.* Last week he leveled his biggest blast in years. The main target: Sociologist Sara Harris, 34, whose recent book, Father Divine: Holy Husband (Doubleday: $3.95), is a sprightly study of Father and his cult...