Word: potshot
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...coolies who thought it good sport to flail his posteriors, raise welts upon his face, and knock out several of his teeth. When they released Mr. Greenwood, he was able to stagger into the refuge of the international city. ¶ Foreign shipping on the Yangtze River was repeatedly potshot by irresponsible Chinese artillery on shore, last week, causing the U. S. S. Preble and Cincinnati to return this fire several times with four-inch and six-inch guns. When similarly attacked, the British H. M. S. Mantis and Wolsey went into action with machine guns...
...Last year Capt. Castro of Chile was first of all flyers to cross the Andes. -Not, however, Sergt. A. G. Elliott, who started from England with Pilot Gobham but died when a Bedouin rifleman, strolling on the bank of the Euphrates River, took a potshot "for sport" at the strange thing passing overhead. Not Sergeant Ward, either, who volunteered for Elliott's place and flew with Cobham from Arabia to Australia. It was one Captel, a mechanic who substituted for Ward in Australia for the flight home...
While many a U. S. maid and matron dived beneath tea tables, shrieked, the embattled Deputies potshot at each other from opposite sidewalks. Onetime Governor Garillo of the state of Tabasco fell at once, mortally wounded in the face. Col. Andres Garcia was killed outright. Others were wounded...