Word: shooting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...going to be out on the street turning tricks." "Let me see your hands," demands another questioner. "No needle marks. Not yet, anyway. You're lucky so far," he continues, then grimly goes into the details of how addicts have to keep looking for new veins to shoot heroin into as old ones collapse. "How would you like it, having to shoot up in your neck?" "I wouldn't," mumbles the girl...
...gadgetry that the Viet Cong sometimes seem to prefer even to their newly acquired modern amenities. Not long ago, an American patrol near a 1st Air Cavalry base in the Central Highlands came across a monster crossbow hidden in the jungle. It was cocked at the sky, ready to shoot a six-foot spear into some unsuspecting chopper...
...biathlon is a twelve-and-a-half-mile ski race in which the competitors carry rifles and must stop four times to shoot at 10-inch targets 150 meters away. A skier is penalized two minutes for each time he misses one of the twenty targets...
...Foul shooting was the only excuse for B.C.'s finding itself in the Eastern final against U.N.C. The over-rated Eagles ran into an effective freeze by Connecticut and were lucky to get past the first round. In the semi-finals they were outclassed by St. John's but squeaked by, hitting 23 of 25 second half freebies. (The Redmen from Brooklyn were so stunned by their defeat that they collapsed in the consolation game with Princeton, losing 78-58.) North Carolina had little trouble eliminating the Eagles Saturday night in a rather routine shoot...
...Hollywood in the early '50s and the revival of Europe as a center of film production. Since the European industry was small and loosely organized, such directors as Vittorio De Sica, Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Alain Resnais, François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard could pretty well shoot them as they saw them and let the censor take the hindmost. As a result, they made a number of fine far-out films (The Bicycle Thief, Wild Strawberries, 8½, L'Avventura, Hiroshima, Mon Amour, The 400 Blows, Breathless) that made a startling amount of money...