Word: shooting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GUTS team played a wide-open brawling game. They switched from last week's squopp-squopp tactics -- where both team members try to cover the opposition's pieces with their own winks and shoot for the pot only late in the game -- to squidge-squopp. In this style of play, one man tries to neutralize the opposition by squopping, while his teammate goes for the score...
...Grimble had the whole net to shoot at from point blank range after Tiger goalie Graeme Flanders blocked center Pete Miller's shot from in front. Left wing Gordie Price set up Miller's shot with a pass out from the corner...
Flanders made 36 saves for Princeton, but left countless dangerous rebounds. Harvard's four goal total is no reflection of the number of open nets the Crimson players had to shoot...
...nearby Ubon, where U.S. fighter-bombers operating from that provincial capital mount almost daily strikes against North Viet Nam. In the past six months, Communist assassins have killed some 40 village headmen, teachers and "police informers" in the six Northeast provinces. With steadily growing intensity, armed bands of guerrillas shoot it out openly with Thai authorities. Bangkok officials report that several hundred Communist infiltrators, about a third of them Vietnamese, have slipped across the Mekong into the Northeast from Red bastions in Laos...
...snake pit of contemporary evil when the town's bad boy, Bubber Reeves (Robert Redford), escapes from prison and heads home to settle scores among a scroungy lot of drunken, wife-swapping, white-collar workers who carry their pistols to parties of a Saturday night. "Shoot a man for sleepin' with someone's wife?" cries a roundheeled young matron, Janice Rule. "Half the town 'ud be wiped out." Poor Bubber's Mama (Miriam Hopkins), cast as Parental Guilt, hysterically accepts blame for all his misdeeds, though maternal love appears to be her only failing...