Word: shooting
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...luster. The heightening of the war has also increased Wheeler's authority on Capitol Hill: as Kipling noted, the man in uniform may be everyone's goat in peacetime, "But it's 'Savior of 'is country' when the guns begin to shoot." Wheeler has never indulged in the public griping or corridor grumping of previous JCS chairmen. On the contrary, as the nation's top advocate for the military viewpoint, he has sufficient courage, diplomacy and professional skill both to cooperate effectively with McNamara and argue opposing convictions dispassionately but persuasively within...
...mission on both the 16th and 17th revolutions, which took him close to his planned landing site in central Russia. But Soyuz was probably still tumbling, and Komarov could not use his retrorockets. Unless an orbiting spacecraft is stabilized and properly oriented when the retrorockets are fired, it can shoot farther into space or re-enter the atmosphere improperly and burn...
...Fremont, Ohio, a middle-aged husband recently went berserk and tried to beat his wife to death. When the police arrived, he threatened to shoot anyone who interfered. In that common situation, many a U.S. policeman might have whipped out his own gun and shot first, even if the suspect regrettably died in the process. Instead, one Fremont policeman squeezed off a stream of tear-gas-like liquid that hit the crazed husband in the face and instantly brought him to his knees, stunned, docile-and alive...
Moral Question. A century ago, any felony could be punished by death. Today that is no longer true. And yet, says New York Police Commissioner Howard R. Leary, "the policeman can shoot to kill if he reasonably believes that the person at whom he shot was committing a felony or escaping from a felony. The rule raises a substantial moral question: Is it proper to take the life of a fleeing felon who, if caught, tried and convicted, could not be executed?" Answering his own question, Leary has just promulgated a new department rule that requires his 28,000 policemen...
This year's scores are bound to be lower, because last year's tourney was played in raw and rainy weather. Harvard golfers are talking 75's. A 750 total would win, but it is not certain that the Crimson can shoot what it talks...