Word: targets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bandbox answered: "Hello, Firefly One. Hello, Firefly One. We have a target for you. We will mark the area with two volleys of white phosphorus shells. Take a heading north from your present position and look straight ahead...
Firefly One's crew dropped the flares through three-foot metal tubes, ripping off a strip of white webbing that ignited each flare and opened its parachute. Suddenly the valley below, surrounded by paddy fields striding up sharp-shadowed mountains, leaped into garish light. Bandbox identified the target-an east-west ridge with a saddle in the middle-and Firefly called down an Invader. The Invader pilot, however, could not find the target ridge. "Okay, boy," said Firefly, 'Til turn on my landing lights and point...
Inside the Soviet Union, anti-U.S. propaganda has suddenly broadened. Formerly Russian attacks were focused on "Wall Street imperialists" and "ruling circles " Now the whole U.S.seems to be the target A new tailor-made history of the Western allies' intervention in Russia after the 1917 Bolshevik revolution is shrilled on the radio-"Our people will never forget [these] bloody crimes!" Also World War I is being refought in the press: the U S has been Russia's enemy "invariably'' nee 1917, and it plotted to "bleed Russia white during...
Speaking before the war-mobilization conference of the Associated Industries of Massachusetts, Harris said that "Massachusetts is a vulnerable target area and politicians in other states are doing a better job of securing contracts." According to Harris' speech, delivered before the final session of the two-day conference, the net result was that Massachusetts' industry was losing out in the race for government war-work...
...students crowded about the Ann Arbor dormitory that winter night in 1947 were in a boisterous mood. They had cut off the dormitory's electricity were shouting up at a second-story window and bombarding it with snowballs. Their target: Communist Gerhart Eisler, guest of Michigan Youth for Democratic Action...