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Word: targets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went, former Minister of the Interior François Mitterand was pelted with aged pears, tomatoes, oranges and occasional root vegetables selected for their hardness. Ex-Premier Mendès-France, breezing out of one rally to address another, narrowly dodged a left hook and threw one off-target in reply. The leader of the Union for Defense of Shopkeepers and Artisans, a motley, rowdy party standing against all candidates and most taxes, swore his followers to accept summary punishment up to and including death if found guilty of violating the party line. Another ex-Premier, Edgar Faure, filed suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Tomorrow's Secret | 1/2/1956 | See Source »

...were loaded to limit with a 2,000-lb. egg of destruction. Below, on the deck of the transport Henderson, a crowd of U.S. admirals, generals, Cabinet members and Congressmen milled for vantage with a score of newsmen and foreign diplomats. One by one the bombers buzzed past the target at about 2,500 ft. and laid their eggs. At the sixth pass, an aged officer put his head in his hands and wept, as the "unsinkable" German battleship Ostfriesland sank with a glug heard round the world-and echoed violently in military history from that day to this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 26, 1955 | 12/26/1955 | See Source »

...Middies caught the opening kick-off and steamed 76 yds. for the first score of the game. It hardly seemed to matter that the extra-point kick was wide. Whenever Welsh dropped back to pass, the Navy line gave him plenty of time. And he was almost always on target. When the Army secondary dropped back to cover. Welsh rolled wide into the option play, sent little Peanuts Gober scampering downfield or handed off to Fullback Dick Guest, who ground out yardage up the middle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Infantry Tactics | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

...Dealing Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney of Wyoming likes to play the role of a giant killer with a special shillelagh cocked for big business. Since General Motors is a giant -the biggest, most profitable corporation in the U.S. -it was the logical target last week for Democrat O'Mahoney's Senate antitrust subcommittee. Ostensible purpose of the hearing: to "appraise the antitrust laws" and ascertain "needed amendments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Giant & the Giant Killer | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

...from Douglas for $36 million. American will start receiving its 575-m.p.h. (up to 125 passenger) planes in March 1959, two months before any other domestic line gets any jets, and plans to be the first to put them into operation between New York and Los Angeles. Target date: June15...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Jets: U.S. Orders | 11/21/1955 | See Source »

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