Word: targets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...military bases and airline offices monitored Obie's radio. In the dimly lit control room at Fat Chance, a Texas-based air defense radar station, trackers picked up Obie's blip on their screen. Like a tiny translucent pearl on green glass, the blip moved toward its target, rolling to one side, then to another, now erratic, now steady, minute by minute, guided all the while by Fat Chance...
...original CEP proposal recommended that 30 per cent of tutorial work in each department be given by members of the Faculty with the minimum rank of assistant professor. The Faculty adopted the 30 per cent figure only "as a target," but also agreed that "each officer of instruction is expected to take part in his department's tutorial program...
Back in London last week, Lancaster concluded: "While as a cartoonist I hate to see an easy target lowered, I am bound to say that personally I much prefer the .American the way he is today." The upgrading of boobus Americanus brought quick kudos from roundhouse Rightist John O'Donnell in his column in the New York Daily News. Declared O'Donnell: "[Lancaster's] decision is a greater diplomatic victory than our State Department has ever won when it comes to making friends with foreigners...
Possessed by Duty. Major Philip Baldwin is a rear-echelon engineer officer with a fever for field duty. He volunteers to command a seven-man demolition team whose main target is the twisting mountain road along which all vehicles, including his own and the pursuing Japanese, must travel. The road is an undulating mass of Chinese refugees moving in grim lockstep with fear, famine and misery. In their eyes, the Americans are the dei ex machina shielded from fatality by the jeep, the SCR-300 radio and the K-ration...
When the confetti battle broke loose a few minutes after he had finished speaking, "sweethearts and relatives were forgotten as Dr. Lowell became the main target and the 76-year-old educator frolicked about like a small boy, hurling back the balls and papers as fast as he could pick them...