Word: targetting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard bass drum, which is the target of many pranks, has been stolen four times in its history, according to Everett. "One time at the Yale game, a group of Yalies got the drum half way across the field while the game was in play before we got it back from them," Everett recalls...
...Essentially, Shepard was lynched - taken from a bar, beaten and left to die because he was the vilified "other," whom society has often cast as an acceptable target of abuse; Dirkhising was just "another" to a pair of deviants. And while child abuse is unfortunately no big news, lynching still is. Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson were not satisfying some animalistic sexual impulse, they were bullies who gratuitously killed someone out of hate for being different than they were. It wasn't about them, it was about Matthew Shepard. Because they dramatically reflected some of society's darkest influences...
...Pentagon has been using Vieques for target practice for decades now," said Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs John H. Coatsworth, the director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies...
Tensions in Vieques were brought to a head last spring, when a Marine pilot misidentified a military observation post as his target and destroyed it with two 500-pound bombs...
Wilford had the Midas touch all afternoon. His favorite target was freshman wide receiver Carl Morris, who pulled in 5 balls for 112 yards, including a stunning 50-yard fingertip catch...