Word: targets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sixty men & women of the trailer camp had been treated for injuries. Had there been no warning before the bomb explosions, the fatalities would have been catastrophic, for the mangled corner of the Fairfield-Suisun air base looked exactly as though it had been the B-29's target for the night...
...three big strikes, B-29s had dropped 1,300 tons of bombs on the Chosen Nitrogen Chemical Co. at Hungnam, 126 miles north of the 38th parallel. The Air Force claimed to have severely damaged at least a third of the "buildings, laboratories, power plants and warehouses" in the target area...
...future warfare," wrote Dr. Bradford in the New England Journal of Medicine, "there is likely to be no combat zone of any magnitude except for civilian target areas . . . and the number of casualties may be immense. Thus, the number of doctors needed will be very much greater than ever before, and the waste of doctors, improvidently squandered throughout military and naval establishments, idly waiting for action, will be not only inexcusable but insupportable...
...target of Bridges' wrath was CBS Newscaster Bill Costello, who last week broadcast the news that the 2nd Infantry Division was landing at Pusan while soldiers were still hitting the beach. But if any help had been given the enemy, the fault was not Costello's alone. He had picked up his information from a United Press dispatch, was ahead of the newspapers only because his morning broadcast beat early afternoon editions...
...novel about the British in India, The Prevalence of Witches (1948). The Backward Bride seems meant to be profound in a Shavian way when it is not trying to be like Norman Douglas' South Wind. It is as far from either model as it is from the double target roughly caricatured in the description of Professor Lissom. The professor is somewhere south-southeast of Philosopher Bertrand Russell and the plump Bloomsbury hedonist, C.E.M. Joad. All that fidgety Satirist Menen succeeds in doing in his jape is to remind the reader what neat debaters those...