Word: targets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first concern was not with redressing his personal grievances but with setting right the things that he had found wrong with U.S. policy in Latin America; it was challenge and response. On this course his perennial enemies the Democrats agreed, even though they swung on Nixon as a political target as a result of the trip (see The Vice-Presidency...
...plunged into the Atlantic. It was the nose cone of a Jupiter IRBM, launched only minutes earlier from a pad at the Cape Canaveral missile test center. Hoisted aboard Escape, the recovered cone proved that the Army had solved both the reentry problem and the accuracy problem. Hitting the target area at a range of 1,600 miles was a feat of marksmanship considerably more remarkable than nicking a dime with a rifle...
...bonds of a steel corporation that later received a city contract; he received a $10,000 letter of credit from promoters of a bus company that won a city franchise; he accepted "beneficences" of $240,000 from Newspaper Publisher Paul Block. Recalling that an earlier Seabury target had admitted getting thousands in cash from "a wonderful tin box," Jimmy protested: "I took it home and put it in a safe-not a vault, not a tin box, a safe in my own house . . . available for Mrs. Walker and myself...
...span, 108-ft. length, 200,000-lb. gross weight) plane is the metal-twisting strain that it endures in the low-level atom-bombing tactic: the aircraft dives, releases its bomb on an upturn, executes a partial loop while the bomb describes an arc on its trip to the target...
...catcher flashed a signal and stuck up his mitt-a fat target. The pitcher frowned moodily and began his windup-a reluctant marksman. All evening, Cincinnati's big righthander, Brooks Lawrence, had been firing successfully past the St. Louis Cardinals. Now he seemed ready to throw and duck. And he had reason. Coiled in the batter's box was Stan ("The Man") Musial, the indestructible old pro whose potent bat has been tormenting National League pitchers ever since his rookie season with St. Louis 18 summers...