Word: targetting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...week period in late February and early March of this year, Michael Fortier picked up McVeigh's mail. Furthermore, Willoughby says, a second man -- who appears to match the description of John Doe No. 2 -- came in once for the mail. Given McVeigh's wide travels, why target Oklahoma City? TIME has learned that McVeigh may have visited federal buildings in Omaha and Dallas, asking people there a number of questions about the buildings' occupants and whether they were armed. In the end, investigators wonder if McVeigh settled on the building in Oklahoma City because it was a "target...
...this was a different, more insidious brand of terror. While the bomb that destroyed the Murrah federal building was massive and crude, the device sent through the Sacramento mail was small and carefully put together-and designed to blow away a specific human target. It bore the telltale signs of a mysterious terrorist who has been eluding law-enforcement agencies for nearly two decades, in the longest-running unsolved serial-bombing case in fbi history. Soon a letter sent by the culprit to the New York Times confirmed what investigators feared: Murray was the latest victim of the shadowy figure...
During this time, it really didn't look like a lacrosse game. It looked like target practice, and Bear Alli Schettini was holding the gun. The freshman tallied two consecutive goals--Brown's second and third of the day--at the 4:48 and 8:02 marks, respectively...
...contact with McVeigh more recently, however, tell a more disturbing tale. According to the Associated Press, he joined the Army after high school and served as a Bradley vehicle gunner and sergeant during the Gulf War. "He was a good soldier. If he was given a mission and a target, it's gone," said James Ives, another sergeant in McVeigh's Army infantry unit. He worked himself hard on his own time, hoping to qualify for the Army Special Forces. After he failed to make it, friends say, McVeigh, already a loner, became increasingly frustrated. His politics veered far rightward...
...current production opens stiffly (as though conversation had to be slower in the 19th century because contractions hadn't yet been invented), the actors soon zero in on their thrillingly cold target. As is often true in James, we witness a battle that can have no victors. Dr. Austin Sloper (Philip Bosco) is a wealthy widower whose earnest daughter Catherine (Cherry Jones) pales beside his resplendent memories of his wife (who, to make the comparison all the more pointed and painful, died giving birth to Catherine). Reared in an atmosphere of genteel censure, Catherine only gradually surmises that...