Word: targets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suggestion that Korea was far away and none of our business. The U.S. citizen, who had had to be told that Hitler was a threat, didn't have to be told this time. He knew that the Communists were aiming for something bigger than Korea-and that that target included...
With a Chamber of Commerce faith in their city's importance as a target, most city planners were sure that their local army air base or railroad yard was uppermost in Joe Stalin's mind. Detroit was certain that its auto plants would take a hit. Los Angeles had its aircraft plants. And Boston counted itself vulnerable because of the Navy yard and the massed brain power around Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...positions corresponding to all of its characteristics. Some knobs take care of its air drag and the thrust of its rocket motor. Others express the action of its gyroscopic controls. Others account for the motion of its launching site (such as a naval vessel) and of its target (such as an enemy airplane...
...computer starts thinking electronically, weighing all the forces that will affect the flight of the missile. When the machinery stops, the whole story of the flight is drawn as a curve on a sheet of paper. If the rocket misbehaved (went out of control, veered sideways, missed the target), the reason for the error can be found and corrected on the next flight...
...Main target of Washington's propaganda barrage was the pool of 7,500 physicians who did not see active duty, though they got their training during and after World War II at Government expense in ASTP and V12 programs. (Almost twice as many, similarly trained, put in their two years.) Editorialized the Journal of the American Medical Association: "The moral obligation that rests on them to serve the nation in this time of need is clear and unequivocal...