Word: targets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after the Communists' five weeks' grace, the flak flew thicker over virtually every target. Moreover, reconnaissance showed that Ho Chi Minh's men had hastily implanted ten new SAM sites, bringing to 60 the number of nests across the country able to cradle Ho's Russian rocket launchers. Even the North Vietnamese air force took advantage of the free skies to give its pilots some hasty refresher work in the MIG fighters that Hanoi has largely refrained from using so far. Hanoi also used the hiatus to pump perhaps 6,000 fresh troops down...
First off the mark were Navy planes from the U.S.S. Ranger, which dropped a bridge twelve miles southwest of Dong Hoi and blasted a ferry landing near Quang Khe. Only minutes later, on target-a highway-ferry complex at Thanh Hoa-were Air Force F-105s, and another Air Force wing was soon battering a cluster of barges with 20-mm. cannon. The first day's bombing took a toll of three U.S. planes shot down by antiaircraft fire-one measure of the use to which Hanoi had put the pause...
Costlier Beer. The vast U.S. buildup has made the railroad of prime concern to the Saigon government and its allies-and a favorite target of the Viet Cong. Last year the Reds staged 811 incidents along the line's 690 miles of track, mostly mine explosions and sniping attacks that killed 126 Vietnamese. Today only 345 miles of track are usable, despite the fact that most trains carry three squat grey gun cars bristling with automatic weapons, and are often preceded by diesel-powered machine-gun-bearing armored cars called con rua, or "turtles," by the Vietnamese. But armored...
...colleagues privately called him "cemetery bait," and the bookmakers along his Broadway beat said that on any given day, the odds were 9 to 5 he would be killed. But when the shots were fired, they were off target; the knives and brickbats missed; the flung cue balls were wide of the mark. Johnny Broderick, "the world's toughest cop," was destined to die in bed-which he did last week of a heart attack on his 72nd birthday...
...easy-to-bed wife (Barbara Polomska) with an enemy Hungarian officer, learns that the fleeing Hungarians will lend men and guns to help the Polish Home Army. Before the Poles refuse, the drunken, don't-give-a-damn patriot hustles messages back and forth, so ludicrous a target that a thundering German tank blasts him only with derision. At one point, he joins a long line of evacuees and is forced to shoulder household goods for a peasant woman, a greedy "old bitch" who makes him buy the stuff...