Word: targets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...death with a sandalwood stick wrapped in silk. Ordinary sentence of death in modern Thailand is meted out by machine gun following sentences of the courts. But with Buddhist reverence for life and typical Thai indirection, the condemned is concealed behind a curtain on which is painted a target-and it is the target at which the state's machine gunners fire...
...reason for Thai-American cooperation was explained to his subjects by King Bhumibol himself in his New Year's message. "The opposite side has revealed its intention that Thailand is to be the next target of aggression. A very great danger might reach us any day. None of you must be put off your guard...
Another driver was injured when his car piled into the wall; Bob Veith narrowly escaped a barbecue when his MG Special blossomed into flame at 175 m.p.h. Everybody's target was A. J. Foyt's 1965 record qualifying average of 161.2 m.p.h. And before the week was over, seven drivers had beaten...
DeGuglielmo said he saw no emergency calling for all-night crosswalk-painting. He added that the campaign was doing a good job in the one target so far, Harvard Square...
...business. For it is from the bulging godowns of Cholon that Viet Nam's 1,200,000 "overseas" Chinese dominate almost 90% of the nation's economy. Lately, to Chinese chagrin, that precarious dominance has been threatened. After all, the Chinese of Cholon have been a target for Communist persuasion for the past 20 years...