Word: targets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coast. From the naval post ashore came the map coordinates of the Red troops. In Lieut, Donald A. Marksheffel's main battery plotting room, seamen worked out range and meteorological data, fed it into a boxlike mechanical computer. The No. 3 gun turret swung around toward the target, its 8-in. muzzles rising slowly. Marksheffel dropped a hand, and a seaman pressed a warning buzzer three times with his left hand. With his right, he squeezed a pistol-like trigger, firing the first gun. The ship's crockery rattled as a 260-lb. shell hurtled over the mountain...
...raked Hill 459, the valleys and road junctions around it, cutting the battlefield off from Red reinforcement. Meanwhile, in the light of the destroyer's star shells, the South Korean infantrymen cut down the attackers, dug in and held. At dawn the cruiser lifted its fire from the target hill, and hands on deck watched airplanes from the carrier Bon Homme Richard buzz inland to hit the enemy with napalm and rockets...
...stand on their own economic feet. The sugar kings and wealthy traders had prospered, but thousands of tenant farmers were left in discontented peonage. The seed of freedom had sprouted, but the soil of order on which freedom must grow had been neglected. Above all, in setting a target date for independence so far in advance, the U.S. had not reckoned on World...
Britain's Socialist government stoutly urged all twelve NATO nations to adopt a new British .280-cal. rifle, even though the U.S. argued that its own new .30-cal. T25 has more range and target impact (TIME, Aug. 20). Last week, in reply to a question in the House of Commons, Winston Churchill hinted that the Tory government would shelve the .280 rifle...
...after Gandhi's death, disciple Vinoba Bhave (rhymes with save), often called the "son of Gandhi" is leading a one-man land reform crusade. His crusade which began with remarkable success in Communist-terrorized Telingana province (TIME, June 4), now promises to sweep through India. Bhave's target: the redistribution of 50 million acres-one-sixth of the cultivated land-among India's millions of landless peasants. His argument: "In India the ideal of Ahimsa (nonviolence) has deeply influenced people's minds. We can successfully bring about peaceful social revolution by gentle persuasion. If we adopt...