Word: targets
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...combination of hot air and cold political calculation can stir up a squall in almost any year, and such were the ingredients of the storm that swirled around the head of Vice President Richard Nixon. The cold calculation came from the Democrats, who have long made Nixon their favorite target. The hot air came principally from columnists and other pundits who reasoned that the Democrats had made Nixon a political liability and therefore Ike might drop him from the ticket. For Nixon, it was like being in the eye of a hurricane...
Neither Ike's statement nor the New Hampshire votes could guarantee that the Nixon storm was over; Nixon was still an attractive target for Democrats who did not want to waste their ammunition on Eisenhower. But as far as politicians were concerned, last week was the week that Dick Nixon, for all practical purposes, was nominated...
France is not the only target of Nasser's artful efforts. There is a group from Aden that plots busily at cafe tables against British rule there. Iraq (Egypt's chief Arab rival) caught an Egyptian army officer masquerading as an Egyptian embassy butler and convicted him of conspiracy. In neighboring and impoverished Libya, where the U.S. has a big air base. Egyptian Ambassador Ahmed Hassan el Faki connives busily with his good friend Russian Ambassador Nikolai Generaloff to root Western influence out of the country. In the words of one correspondent, they are "closer than worms...
Shortly before twelve one night in Beverly Hills, earthy playwright Clifford (Clash by Night) Odets, 49, foggily piloted his new Lincoln into a parked car. The target vehicle ricocheted a full 45 feet. Odets flew on. Nabbed soon, he was jailed for nine hours, rapped for drunken driving and for evasive action after a collision, sprung next morning on $263 bail...
Meeting that night, they formally accused her of making "false, defamatory, impertinent, and scandalous charges," and ordered her permanently expelled. Whether or not Autherine fully understood the legal complaint drawn and filed by her lawyers, the reprisal of the trustees fell on her alone. She was the only target within range of the board...