Word: shoot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wound up his tour in the American zone, saw U.S. tankmen, using subcaliber ammunition, trying to shoot on a miniature range, measured in yards, not miles. Lieut. General Manton S. Eddy, U.S. commander in Germany, complained that the training area was too small for regular fire from his big guns; the Germans, however, did not want any more of their farms and villages taken over for training...
March of Time cameramen will shoot pictures of a joint Army, Navy, and Air Force parade at 2:15 p.m. today on the Lacrosse Field. The three professors of Military Science and Tactics will be in the reviewing stand for the parade, which is in reality a rehearsal for a full review...
...planes are always ready; their engines need no warming up. The crews are waiting, too, close to the waiting planes. It takes them only minutes to jump into their gear, clap on their helmets, cram themselves into the cockpits and lower the plastic canopies. The engines whine, shoot a fine mist of kerosene from their tail pipes, then a burst of flame that shrinks to a faint blue cone...
...Mencken-the slender, off-key tradition of pessimism in American life & letters. "Why should I remain in a country that is on the eve of woman's suffrage and prohibition?" sulked Bierce in 1912. The old (71) soldier wanted to see if Pancho Villa and his Mexicans could shoot straight. Late in 1913 he headed over the border, and then disappeared in one of the most celebrated missing-persons cases of the generation. Rumors had him killed with Villa or by Villa, exposure or suicide...
Despite its lack of reserves, Branford was playing an all-out offensive game, with the wings back-checking well. Dudley's passing was off and its men frequently missed scoring opportunities by holding the puck too long before trying to shoot. The Commuters did not take a shot until the second period...