Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fight off the unseen attackers with gunfire, but after a moment they gave up and steamed away, ostensibly to get reinforcements. Meanwhile, a detachment of guards in the rear car of the express lay low, hoping the bandits would overlook them. It was a vain hope. Concentrating their aim on the rear car, the bandits pinned down the guards with a barrage of Bren and Sten gunfire, turning aside only to kill any passengers from the train who tried to escape. Then, going systematically through the cars, they stripped the dead and wounded of all their clothes and possessions, rounded...
...first base, fired back some opinions of the Giants' Pitcher Ruben Gomez. Righthander Gomez, who combines a fast lip with his fast ball, replied in kind, and Adcock charged toward the mound. Gomez once more put his faith in his pitcher's arm. His aim was ornery and his control was only fair-this time he hit Adcock on the thigh. But Gomez did not wait for the call; he turned tail and scuttled for the clubhouse. For a few minutes both teams milled about the Giants' bench, unminding the organist's emergency rendition...
...Fastest Gun Alive (MGM) misfires before it is clear of the holster. The gun (a frontier-model .45) belongs to Broderick Crawford, a hulking fellow with itchy fingers and the single-barreled aim of killing any man who claims to be quicker on the draw. But even as he drills a slower man out in Silver Rapids, a blind seer mocks him: "No matter how fast you are, there's always somebody faster." Crawford like to have strangled...
...lecturer. On the screen it is gone forever, if at that instant someone coughs, or 'the high dome re-echoes to his nose.' as Pope put it. Nor can the teacher judge how well or how ill he is being comprehended-he has perforce to aim at the lowest common denominator...
Manjiro worked as a farm hand, went whaling again, and in 1849 worked his way around the Horn to California, where he prospected for gold. He did not strike it rich, but he saved enough to realize his aim of getting back to Japan and his mother. Foreign ships were not permitted to enter Japanese harbors, but a U.S. captain agreed to drop Manjiro and two of his friends in a small boat which Manjiro had bought and taken aboard. Seventeen days out of Hawaii, the Japanese went over the side, four miles off Ryukyu. Manjiro was home...