Word: killingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...With a BB. Known as "Quick Kill," the program is currently being taught to some 1,300 recruits each week at Fort Benning, Ga., by late fall will become part of the basic infantry course in all twelve U.S. Army training centers. "Quick Kill is for the shot you've got to make when you don't have time to line up your sights," says Colonel William Koob, 47, director of weapons at Benning. "When it's either kill or be killed." After a day of instruction and the expenditure per man of 800 BBs (which cost...
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...
...year-old Frank Hayes Jr. was pronounced free of leukemia following treatment with a new anti-cancer substance, L-asparaginase. Last week, in a Dallas hospital, he died. The immediate cause of death was pneumonia, brought on by a strain of bacteria that neither antibiotics nor sulfa drugs could kill. But the underlying cause was the leukemia, which prevented the boy's natural defense mechanisms from fighting off the infection...
...Corporation" has just hauled them out of a tramp car where they had sunk temporary roots, and pushed them into a new Formica wonder in a housing development. They run their, lives not by push-cards, but by a series of such disorderly urges as lust, the desire to kill, hunger, and pressure on the bladder. And they choose to ignore the Health Services, the schools, the police, and the rules in general...
...they parachute into occupied France. The other eleven stay alive long enough to enter the target, a huge château staffed and stuffed with German brass. Abruptly the place begins to chatter with crossfire and exploding grenades. One by one, the dirty dozen get knocked off as they kill most of the officers and blow the building to bits in some of the loudest, bloodiest battle scenes since Darryl Zanuck made his armies work The Longest Day. In the end, Marvin makes it back to a base hospital with the sole remnant of the patrol. There, a general praises...