Word: scoped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bailyn crossed his legs and said he had never considered this view, paused, and said the question went beyond the scope of his lecture. A fluent few sentences more satisfied the audience, if not the questioner...
Because of this attitude toward the Holocaust--one that acknowledges the scope of its horror and its scars, but one that also recognizes the fact that it is in the past--Bashevis Singer can bring his memory to bear on the very culture the Holocaust helped to destroy. And this is where he's at his very best, when he's describing his first forage outside his home town in the Old Country ("A Tutor in the Village"); or telling about the nicknames given to people in Polish villages, names like Haim Bellybutton, Yekel Cake, Sarah Gossip, Gittel Duck...
...critics insist that Oswald was not a good enough shot to have hit Kennedy twice with a cheap rifle. They contend that it was a difficult shot. In fact, the longest shot was 265.3 ft. from the sixth-floor window. To Oswald, peering through a four-power scope on his rifle, it looked like only about 22 yards. His target, moreover, was moving slowly and in a straight line away from him, rather than laterally...
...ratings, it makes him a good shot by civilian standards. Oswald's mother Marguerite sold two pages from his Marine rifle-score book; they show him making 48 and 49 points out of a possible 50 in rapid fire at 200 yards from a sitting position, without a scope...
...true, as the critics stress and the Warren Commission concedes, that Oswald's scope was mounted slightly off center; the rifle is so constructed as to make a precise center mounting impossible. Practice shooting is required to compensate for the scope's misalignment. Oswald at least once told Marina he was going off to target-shoot. Also, as one army weapons expert advised the commission, Oswald may have been disastrously lucky in that the 3° decline on which the Kennedy car was traveling could have offset the scope's error...