Word: shoot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brigadier General William L. Roberts, until recently head of the 500-man U.S. military mission in Korea, had called the Korean army "the best doggoned shooting army outside the United States." There was some question whether the army had enough to shoot with. In the South, Koreans made a frantic plea to the U.S. for more ammunition; they were believed to have only a ten-day supply...
Besides eleven projected pictures to be distributed impartially among the better-publicized armed forces, Warner is saluting both the Chaplain Corps (Four Chaplains) and WACs on overseas duty (Force of Her Arms). M-G-M is planning to shoot a story about Japanese-American G.I.s in Italy (Go For Broke), and 20th Century-Fox is about to begin filming the exploits of the Navy's rubber-suited demolition swimmers (The Frog...
Asked what makes a good editor, Editor Bruce Ingram of the Illustrated London News once replied: "The chef does not go out with his gun to shoot the pheasant. He does not gather the strawberries and pick the peas. But he knows where the best are to be found and he can combine [them] into a perfect meal. That is the function of the editor...
Keep that bear shadowed, Ben was told; as soon as he could, McFadden would come back and shoot...
...Lilly inherited his uncle's Louisiana farm but left his livestock to "root-hog or die" while he spent long weeks in the woods, hunting bear. As a husband he was no more successful than as a farmer. One day when his wife said, "Ben, you like to shoot so well, why don't you get your gun and shoot that chicken hawk?" he left the house and did not come back for more than a year. "That hawk kept flying," he explained...