Word: shooting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good college team is primarily one that can pass and shoot well, and these are the departments which beat the Crimson Wednesday. Veteran Boston University lines consistently set up triangular attack patterns that forced the Crimson goalies to commit themselves. BU Scored all but one of their goals on these "set" pass plays...
Horween got excited about football on films and arranged to have the two men shoot every game that season. Hallowell and Gelotte set up a method of consecutive photography that has been used ever since...
Last fortnight, after an unidentified plane buzzed his mosquito-bitten border towns, the dictator ordered his armed AT6 trainers to patrol the Costa Rican border, to shoot down intruders on sight. "I will permit no more violations of the national territory," he thundered. Just in case the Legion should make Honduras the road to Nicaragua, Tacho deployed 500 National Guardsmen along his northern frontier, sent 200 right into Honduras to help his friend Carias...
...modest article (which never reached a large public), Dr. Robert M. Salter, chief of the U.S. Agricultural Research Administration, figured how much food the world could produce if it really tried. As a mark to shoot at, he took an estimate by the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) of how much food it would take to give every person living in 1960 an "adequate diet" (about what Americans get). By 1960, FAO believes, there will be 2,250 million people on the planet (other experts consider this estimate high). They will need 21% more cereals than...
Other jet fighters have "ejection seats" which shoot the pilot clear of the tail by the force of a powder explosion. A small "drag parachute" keeps the seat from tumbling. After the pilot recovers his wits, he detaches himself from the seat and floats down to earth with his own parachute...