Word: targets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next afternoon, while Faure, 46, was busy practicing target shooting in the basement of a sporting-goods store, his seconds called on Servan-Schreiber at his editorial office, announced stiffly that Monsieur Faure, "esteeming himself offended, demands apologies or reparations." Editor Servan-Schreiber, complaining gloomily that "this is all such 19th century stuff," found a pair of seconds, one of them his onetime commanding officer in the Free French Air Force. Actually, duels (with pistols), though often banned in France's gallant and tempestuous history, are by no means uncommon even in present-day France, particularly with newspaper editors...
...Melbourne his arrival was front-page news, but he disappointed thousands of fans by ducking into a waiting car ("Let's see the mug," yelled the fans. "Is he too proud to show himself?"). He missed a big luncheon party and was the target of jeers and attempted violence by young toughs but he and his troupe sang for some 55,000 people in four days. "This is the greatest," he said in Sydney. "I've never seen anything like...
...refrigeration is impossible in the wilds of Central America). But last year's outbreak in Trinidad showed how easily the disease can leap from jungle to town. Army medics point out that the southern U.S., swarming with Aêdes aegypti and unvaccinated people, would be a prime target for bacteriological warfare with yellow-fever virus. But so far the U.S. is the only country in the Americas that is doing nothing to get rid of its aegypti...
...animal Author Nathan is really aiming at, of course, is man; in the shape of Sir Henry, he makes a fine target. No longer young, prudent Sir Henry is just a run-of-the-mill knight who wears old-fashioned armor, travels with a hot-water bottle and suffers from nosebleed after battle. Head up, though run down after his encounter with the dragon, he is lucky enough to beat the daylights out of another knight and win a second fair maid. This doubles his troubles. With two women to choose between, Sir Henry becomes the eternal, quintessential male - totally...
Along London's Fleet Street, Sunday People Reporter Duncan Webb, 37, is sometimes called the "greatest crime reporter of our time." In almost 20 years of covering crime he has been slugged, kicked, lunged at with knives, shot at, knuckle-dusted and was once the target of a speeding automobile that raced onto the sidewalk of a narrow Soho street and tried to smash him against a building. Last week Webb was still wearing a plaster cast on his right wrist, broken two months ago when a London gangster known as "Jack Spot" objected to one of his stories...