Word: targets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...satisfying the demand to interest, amuse and inform such a mass public group, the press uses the name of the University not only because it has prestige, but also because it is a target for attack. Either way, the name of the University does have news value...
...scheme to separate the Communists from their sources of supply. His men razed whole villages for aiding the Reds and penned up 120,000-Malayan Chinese. He constantly left his snug headquarters at Kuala Lumpur to roam the jungles in his car, his official red-striped pennant a conspicuous target for snipers. He became, as he intended, a symbol of British determination and doggedness...
...plane appears hostile, a yellow alert (attack likely) is flashed to civil-defense officials in the potential target area. A red alert (attack) is the signal for sirens to wail and people to seek shelter. Meanwhile, in defense jargon, fighters will "take appropriate action," i.e., try to shoot down the intruder...
...banging the traps (well-banged by Jackie Cooper). There are moments of fun and stretches of farcicality. But even the parts that click are glaringly machine-made. What is most disappointing, in terms of Lindsay & Grouse, is less their being wide of the mark than their choice of a target...
Charles Green is a New York appliance dealer with a sharp eye for a quick profit. He buys stock in companies that make money, but pay small dividends, or none, then pressures the management into shelling out. Green's latest target is United Cigar-Whelan Stores Corp., one of the biggest U.S. drug-and cigar-store chains (1,300 outlets...