Word: targets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bartle was not the coalition's target. The real enemy was City Manager L. P. (for Laurie Perry) Cookingham, 62, hired by the reform Citizens Association when it took over in 1940. In the pre-1940 high-flying days of Tom Pendergast's corrupt rule, after-hours liquor sales were a big business, and so were gambling and prostitution; the businessman's lunch hour at the popular Chesterfield Club on Ninth Street was famous for its stark-naked waitresses. City Manager Cookingham cleaned up the town, got going on new roads, schools, sewers, etc., created an environment...
...Chance in 200. What Gralla and his crew had come to shoot were three 57-ft. X-17A solid-propellant rockets, each tipped with a 1.5 kiloton atomic warhead (equivalent in blast to 1,500 tons of TNT). Since he had no target to hit except the wide sky, Gralla's job might have seemed simple, but in fact it was fantastically difficult. To enable the rockets to travel 300 miles up, he had to get them fired in an almost perfectly vertical course, a delicate task in rough seas. The rockets had to go off at precisely...
...novel's hero is a young St. Petersburg philosophy student, Nikolai Apollonovich, who has got mixed up with a seedy revolutionary gang and has committed himself to planting a bomb. The trouble is that the target is his own father -an elderly, rich and humorless bureaucrat just below Cabinet rank and a champion of the Czarist regime. His much younger wife has left him; his son despises him, and most people fear him, actually, he is a harmless little man whose sole commitment is to the civil service. But it is 1905 and Russia has just taken a beating...
...come right along with them-but we don't want to be the fair-headed boys and be there first." Detroit did not see any chance that Colbert could be first, is convinced that he cannot market a small car before 1960, later than the target dates of both Ford and General Motors...
...defense replied that genocide is not defined in any penal code in force in Cuba. Moreover, said the defense, although the airmen by their own count dropped 6,080 bombs and fired 5,000,000 machine-gun bullets, they deliberately misdirected their fire, dropped their bombs outside the target area, sabotaged bombs so they would not explode, falsified their flight reports. As evidence of this, the defense pointed to the small toll...