They didn't know how, but she was a handy target.
But flying at night makes them a handy target of another animal: bats.
"I've just got a lot on my mind, and you're a handy target."
And Jack Fawcett didn't intend to make himself a handy target.
No point in offering a handy target to a wildcat with bow and arrows, he decided, even if she were looking for someone else.
It just made too handy a target.
The other boroughs continue to suffer ignominies, and Manhattan represents a handy target.
It might, except that what has dissipated is not hate, but handy targets.
The house mascot was Pablo, a parrot who provided a handy moving target for beer cans.