Word: marksmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity rifle team defeated Brown, 1402 to 1374, Saturday in the College range to finish its regular season with a 9-3 record. John Hessel, John Liebeskind, and Nat Geary were the leading Crimson marksmen...
...Marksmen Without Mortars. The revolt that the French refuse to call a war has driven hundreds of French settlers from the irrigated farms they had carved out in the Algerian hills, closed down mines and quarries, converted scores of villages into sandbagged strongpoints. It has sucked into Algeria over 200,000 French troops, including the best part of France's NATO divisions, and the bulk of the colonial army now being brought home from South Viet Nam. By contrast, the fellagha's armed strength is less than 10,000 men, possibly less than 5,000. They have...
...fellagha operate at night in bands of 12 to 15, hiding in the caves or the deep cork forests by day. "They are naturally beautiful fighters," says Pierre Galuzot, a lieutenant in the Foreign Legion. "They are tougher than the Viet Minh Communists; they are the best marksmen I have ever fought against...
...open arms and were only slightly put out when Roger missed the target completely at his first shoot. "I suppose," said one member, "that he didn't want to embarrass us." Soon afterward Roger resigned, to assume the presidency of what he called the International Federation of Professional Marksmen...
...only Roger had had the sense to stop talking then and there-but no, his stories went on, and in time the truth caught up with them. There was no International Federation of Professional Marksmen. Roger had won no championships, had shot no rifles and no pistols, had never even seen lower Broadway. His dreamy triumphs had all occurred while he lounged idly in a Left Bank bistro in Paris. Once again the laughter of fellow townsfolk rang in Roger's ears. But Roger did not stay to listen. By last week he had vanished, alone and inglorious, into...