Word: marksmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Caracas, Venezuela, Russian marksmen won nine team championships, piled up 78 points to take first place in the international shooting championships. Second: Sweden, with 57 points...
...unvanquished Crimson marksmen were led by numeral winners Richard Lipman, John Liebeskind, Robert Miller, Paul Wheeler, and Captain Ronald Grimm. They had previously topped the M.I.T. freshmen, 863 to 849, as well as the Waltham High School varsity...
...added that the club plans to provide pistols for interested marksmen who cannot obtain their...
...visit the village of Bukit Lanjan and see a tribe of Sakai, roving aborigines. The friendly little people had been warned that a tuan besar (great master) from over the sea would visit them. And for their visitor they had a gift: a 6-ft. blowpipe (which native marksmen use with rifle accuracy at 25 yards) and a supply of nonpoisonous darts. Said the pleased visitor: "It's the most exciting thing that has happened to me." Would he like to try his target skill now? Quipped Stevenson: "Not till I've got a Republican in the sights...
...marksmen gathered at Fort Ticonderoga, N.Y. were a strange-looking group, dressed in checked shirts and funny hats. One man wore a skunk pelt on his head, another sported a black sombrero with a feather stuck in the band. The firearms were out of the ordinary too: long-barreled pistols, archaic-looking rifles decorated with carvings, etched designs and inlays. They were all old-style muzzle-loaders-flintlocks or caplocks*-and the oddly hatted people were devoted muzzle-loader fans...