Word: targets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President had appointed Youngdahl a federal judge in the District of Columbia, to succeed the late T. Alan Goldsborough.* With one round from his gun, Harry Truman had just about blown off the head of the Minnesota Republican Party. Slick Senator Humphrey, who had laid the gun on the target, could chuckle...
...hurtled up over Eniwetok Atoll. In brief and terrible seconds the fireball blossomed into the mushrooming cloud that hovers like some sinister symbol over atomic explosions. Afterwards, as soon as things were reasonably safe, scientists, construction crews and military technicians from Joint Task Force Three swarmed ashore at the "target" island. They measured what was left to measure, studied the effects of the blast that had been seen as far as Kwajalein, 375 miles away, made ready to conduct still more tests. Then, after two years of work and two months of grim experiment, the atom armada came home. They...
...Bang-bang-bang him in the belly," said Gainford. "Slow him up." Robinson went to work, snakewhipped De Bruin with sharp lefts. Right hooks, crosses, uppercuts and underswung bolos* crashed through De Bruin's blockade of glove and muscle. Robinson was on target, bombarding his opponent with boxing's most effective and versatile arsenal. By the middle of Round Eight, De Bruin had had enough. Pummeled and pounded by a copper-colored whirlwind that seemed to buffet him from all sides, he wearily threw up a hand in a gesture of defeat and ambled out of the ring...
...Juan Peron campaigned mainly against U.S. Ambassador Spruille Braden, who had been rash enough to criticize Peron's dictatorial style. Last week, as the President prepared to run for a second term in 1952, Argentina's government loosed a blast against Peron's favorite electioneering target, the U.S. The attack was launched in the front page of Buenos Aires' semi-official newspaper Democrada, in an editorial signed by "Descartes," a writer generally believed to be Peron himself. Wrote Descartes...
...Journal editorial writer and columnist. Instead of retiring into an ivory tower, he went right on crusading, though often in such minor-and popular -causes as the lack of courtesy among bus drivers. This spring, Bob Collins turned his fire on a bigger target...