Word: marksmanship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shooting is at 200 yards, slow and rapid fire. Competitions are conducted in winter and spring for National Rifle Association qualifications for marksmanship, sharpshooter, and expert...
...lives; nearly every village had a range where shoots were held for turkeys, chickens, or barrels of corn whiskey. Only 20 years ago dead-eyed Annie Oakley was as popular a figure as Helen Wills Moody is today. Nowadays the public gets more excited over flagpole sitting than over marksmanship. Last fortnight when the U. S. International Free-Rifle team sailed for Antwerp to try for the fifth successive time to bring the championship back to this country, the people and their press paid scant attention...
...days, while Mme Leontine gradually overcame her repulsion to the weapon, the Desotrats practiced marksmanship against the garden wall, M. Paul shouting encouragements: "Vas y! Go to it, Leontine! Tire encore!" Mme Leontine's mother, blind, partially deaf, quietly sat in her garden chair, listening to the popping of the pistol...
...gunman, brandishing an automatic, is bragging of his marksmanship to a newsman...