Word: marksmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pair, a boy about ten and a 12 year old girl, cheerfully bombarded unfortunates below without disturbance for over 30 minutes. Cambridge police finally came to the rescue as a passing patrol car scared them off. The marksmen had attained their vantage point by climbing a ladder at the back of the store...
...crosswind whipped the Army's Aberdeen (Md.) Proving Ground as two riflemen stepped up to the firing line. The marksmen took aim, squeezed off a few single shots, then flipped the rate-of-fire levers on their rifles and sprayed out a rippling burst of full automatic fire at the target. The riflemen were two of the country's top small-arms experts: Major General Julian S. Hatcher, U.S.A., ret., and retired Marine Major General Merritt A. Edson. They were at Aberdeen to try out the Army's secret, new, lightweight .30-cal. automatic rifle...
Richards wrote the score for this, his first published song, and two friends collaborated on the lyrics. The recording of the song also features him as vocalist, backed by a group called "The Marksmen" with whom he has sung professionally...
...best U.S. gunners met to shoot it out for the National Skeet championships (broken down into age, sex, gun-gauge, amateur and professional categories). A perfect round (25 hits, no misses) is fine shooting on anybody's skeet field. But a 25 was commonplace to the eagle-eyed marksmen who blasted away at the Dallas Gun Club's tent camp during the worst Texas heat wave in years...
...Cuban-born Carola Mandel, 31, wife of wealthy Chicago Department Store Owner Leon Mandel. A skeet shooter for only three years, steady-nerved Mrs. Mandel is already right up in the big time, last month won the Open High-Over-All title at Chicago, outshooting some veteran male marksmen to do it. In Dallas, wearing her regular plaid shirt & tweed skirt, despite the heat, she won the 20-gauge (100 out of 100) and small gauge (98 out of 100) competitions, for a split of the major women's titles with Mrs. R. H. Hecker of Tucson, Ariz...