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Word: targets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...original target of the Princeton students was Dartmouth College, the Tiger's football opponent in Palmer Stadium Saturday. But bad weather halted the trip at Pittsfield, Massachusetts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tiger Head Sorry For Student Gag | 11/24/1950 | See Source »

...airmen were busier last week than at any time since the war began. With Chinese Communist soldiers and equipment pouring from Manchuria into North Korea, every bridge across the Yalu River became a target. By the hundreds, U.S. jets and piston-powered planes bombed, rocketed and machine-gunned roads, supply points and assembly areas. The tempo of the allied air attack brought Russian-made jets (see below) racing across the border into dogfights with U.S. jets and piston planes. The Reds lost 48 planes in ten days. Maximum demolition and fire bomb attacks were delivered by 6-293 upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR WAR: Busiest Week | 11/20/1950 | See Source »

Knives & Limburger. Nothing that passes through A & P's headquarters is too small for John Hartford's eye. One morning his secretary found him throwing knives at a target in his office. A truck driver had sued A & P, charging he had been injured by a knife thrown by an A & P clerk. John made his tests to see if it was possible to hit a man at the distance claimed, proved it unlikely, won his case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red Circle & Gold Leaf | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

...counterblast of his own: "For anyone to suggest that the steel industry should arbitrarily be required to increase its capacity by 20 to 30 million tons during the next two years ... is to suggest a program ... so unrealistic that it is sheer nonsense . . . Our industry is an early target of an obvious campaign that will lead to socialization of American industry ... a fight that will come to other industries unless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dust Storm | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

...just one more exchange of everyday high explosives. Not until he was an old man of 78, stubbornly sticking to his home in the heart of blitzed London, did Wells experience the "strange confrontation" of picking up the morning paper and seeing that fantastic prophecy had found a target at last in Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Prophet, Card, Born Writer | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

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