Word: targeting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nation on earth has seen more suffering in the past decade than this once tranquil and fertile land. Though neutral in the early years of the Viet Nam War, Cambodia unwittingly became a base for the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese, and the target of savage U.S. bombings. Its popular Chief of State, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, was overthrown by Premier Lon Nol in 1970. Lon Nol was in turn deposed by Pol Pot when the Khmer Rouge, as the Cambodian Communist forces are called, took over the country in 1975. After four years of mass terror and murder under...
...from a Quaker offense that has been sometimes wishbone and sometimes effective. Split and Nelson Johnson has been a long ball threat, with two 67-yd. TD s to his credit."Now is the time to turn it around," Restic said yesterday, and Penn rates as the most favored target for turning it around. Quarterback Burke St. John, the Ivy passing leader, proved himself something of a midder in last week's loss to Brown and he seems to be recovering steadily from his knee injury...
Lately the word liberal has become something of a political epithet, meaning that the target is an impractical spendthrift. Kennedy's staff has taken to calling him a "pragmatist," which is supposed to convey the impression that he is a hard-headed problem solver not bound by any ideology. That definition, too, can be read in more than one way. Says an old Kennedy friend, conservative Republican Congressman Barber Conable of New York: "Ted is the son of Joe Kennedy and the brother of Jack and Bobby. Like them, he accommodates himself to the prevailing views...
...first prisoner's son. Both men had been found guilty of running a brothel. A heavy, padded belt was wrapped around his waist to protect his kidneys. An assistant painted a 2-in.-wide red stripe across the prisoner's buttocks to define the target zone; then the two floggers, alternating strokes, began to whack his rump. After each blow, the whipper would dance back a few steps; turning with acrobatic grace, he would twirl his cane like a drum major's baton and rush forward to strike the next blow. The victim's body writhed...
...concede anything, however. He has St. John, now the Ivy League's leading passer, growing more experienced each week. And on the receiving end will be Rich Horner, the split end who has more than twice as many catches and twice as many yards as any other Ivy target...