Word: marksmanship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, after four years of traveling across 1.24 billion miles of space, there was no faulting Voyager 2's marksmanship. Indeed, one golf-minded scientist likened it to sinking a 500-mile putt. Superlatives were certainly in order last week as the semiautonomous robot completed the second lap of its epic flight: a rendezvous with the giant ringed planet Saturn, the spectacular finale to two ambitious decades of planetary exploration by unmanned U.S. spacecraft...
...youngsters here plunge into seven days of whirlwind activity. They compete in a wilderness decathlon, pitch horseshoes, brand leather, play soccer and Frisbee, build a bridge without any rope, set up a tent blindfolded, run an obstacle course with arms tied, fish, canoe, raft, fire air rifles on a marksmanship range...
...price tag on its initial order of 220,000 The Pentagon will replace its 418,000 aging .45s and 136,000 surviving .38s over the next ten years. But the pistols, unlike old soldiers, will not fade away; they will be stored, sold overseas or donated to, well, marksmanship clubs...
...membership director who operates a gun store in a suburb of Kansas City, Kans.: "The average N.R.A. member is the average American citizen-a family man in his early 30s with just over two children, a home and two cars." In many areas, it is known more for its marksmanship competitions and outdoor recreational programs than for its political activities. Adds Jack Ludwig, past secretary of the Cincinnati Muzzle-Loading Rifle Club, an N.R.A. affiliate: "It is a very old and honorable organization that does a lot of good for shooters and hunters. If you are interested in cars...
...writes his parents in 1918. "We've killed 3 big bull elk-2 bucks-2 bear-an eagle and a coyote-Grouse all the time -Killed enough meat for the two guides to get married on-" The years pass the tallies mount. Noble critters are immortalized by his marksmanship in Wyoming, Montana, Idaho and Africa. Off Key West and Cuba, tons of tarpon, swordfish and sharks succumb to his brawn, will and, at one point his tommy gun. He boasts of bagging 122 enemies in combat, outboxing the biggest man on Bimini and having intercourse three times...