Word: dabblers
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Based on instinct-shooting techniques developed by a Georgia snuff salesman and trick shot named Bobby Lamar ("Lucky") McDaniel, 41, the Quick Kill method was developed for the Army by McDaniel's former business associate, Promoter Mike Jennings, 50, a dabbler in horse races, prize fights and shooting matches. Behind the method is the same principle that a small boy instinctively adopts in a game of Cowboys and Indians. When he sights his foe, he flicks his index finger toward him and, without really aiming, hollers "Bang! You're dead!" His hand is an extension...
...there are advantages as well as disadvantages. First is the feeling that one is a member of a select group of activists, unified in the face of adversity. There is a pride in being a "professional and not just a dabbler"--a professional because of the sacrifices one must make to become a member. And, as in any club, there are fringe travel benefits which go along with membership. The Communist is received in style in Cuba, Guatemala (in the hills), France, Italy, Russia, and China, to mention a few. Furthermore, there are those pretty girls and after Party parties...
...from other students, and they have little in common except that they have all taken marijuana or LSD during their last two years at Harvard. I chose to single out pot and LSD because they seem to define the extremes of the spectrum of drug experiences at Harvard--from dabbler...
Emerson called him "the greatest writer who ever lived." Claudel considered him a "great solemn ass." Jung pronounced him "a prophet." Evelyn Waugh dismissed him as a "wayward dabbler in philosophy." Valery said he was "one of the luckiest throws that fate has ever allowed the human race to make...
...been very much a dabbler, and I'm not ashamed of it. Sometimes I wonder idly what I might be remembered for a hundred years from now-but I don't really very much care what people think about me, especially a hundred years hence." Perhaps John Burdon Sanderson Haldane did not really care, but last week, when it came time for BBC-TV to present a prefilmed obituary of the versatile British scientist in which he appeared, it was clear that he would be remembered for a multitude of contributions to man's knowledge...