Word: targets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Border Was the Target. U.N. forces struggled to recover their balance, and partially succeeded. In the northwest the trapped R.O.K. regiments fought their way into the clear, though with some losses to men and equipment. The R.O.K. ist Division was holding Unsan against punishing enemy attacks, and the British Commonwealth 27th Brigade was again making progress toward Sinuiju...
...Holy Cross will be handicapped, too, as it bids for its second victory of the season and first at the Stadium in its last five appearances. The Crusaders have lost regular tackle Dick Sweeney for the season and end Tom McCann, Maloy's favorite passing target next to halfback John Turco, has a bad ankle and may not play. Loss of McCann would be serious to Crusader chances, since he is the 11th ranking pass receiver in the nation with 23 caught for 302 yards...
...speeches, Taft is making "labor bosses" his chief target ("My opponent is a captive candidate of the C.I.O.," he has said). He is making it a point to stop in every country in Ohio to prove to people that he is human. His backers emphasize his unquestionably great intelligence. His opponents suggest that his intelligence is notably misdirected...
...first notes of the bullfight music sounded, one of the fans hurled a stocking filled with flour toward the arena, hit a Mexican army lieutenant squarely in the face. A soldier who tried to arrest the culprit quickly became a target for a volley of empty bottles and oranges. "It's all in fun," screamed the charcoal makers, "don't arrest our brother." At the height of the uproar another soldier, who had just put down a marijuana cigarette, calmly unslung his Mauser, fired point-blank at the yelling fans. An aficionado dropped with a bullet behind...
...years with the Public Health Service, is a nationwide system of germ-warfare detection centers. They would operate in much the same way as a radar network for detecting the approach of aircraft. But instead of a sky-scanning "bedspring" or "clam shell," there would be, in each likely target area, a device to force large samples of air through filters on which disease-causing organisms would be trapped. Each day's catch could be analyzed to see whether any unusual microbes had appeared. So would samples of the area's milk and water supplies...