Word: shooting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...next six months, they will study in the stately building, little changed from its ancient beginnings as an English country house except for the ceiling nudes, chastely painted over by the Jesuits who leased the building to Stanford. The students will play croquet on the well-trimmed lawns, shoot arrows in the gardens, ride to hounds with adjacent estate owners. Harlaxton Man or is the newest of Stanford's five permanent campuses in Europe...
...minute span Gene Dressler twice missed five-foot jump shots on the fast breaks. Barry Williams and Charlie McGonaugie threw the ball away, and John Scott was called for travelling. As Cornell moved ten points ahead, Harvard started passing the ball around like a hot potato. Nobody wanted to shoot, and the Crimson passed up good shots. With 10:20 to play Cornell led, 70 to 57, and Harvard threatened again...
...Texas' independence, the corps provided socially useful employment for the local gunslingers-since they were bound to shoot somebody, it might as well be enemies of Texas. The gunslingers, delighted to be doing for pay ($1.25 a day) what they would normally have done for pleasure, proved remarkably effective, and in 1848, when the U.S. declared war on Mexico, they went roaring across the border like a platoon of panthers. Unhappily, the Texas Devils, as the Mexicans called them, were so blind-crazy for blood that they often made more enemies than they killed. In Mexico City, for instance...
...then there was a Ranger named Ray ("Pinochle") Miller. When captured by Mexican bandits who decided "to 'dobe-wall him," he shot the firing squad with a camera before it could shoot him with bullets. Flattered and fascinated, the bandits began posing for photographs and drinking straight shots of sotol, a distillation of yucca that makes tequila seem like celery tonic. When they were suitably swacked, Sergeant Miller took a flying leap to the nearest horse and "hit the Rio Grande so hard he knocked it dry for 50 feet." He left his camera behind. No matter. No film...
Cornell plays run-and-shoot basketball, and last season not an Ivy record by averaging 82 points per game. They scored 92 points in a loss to Brigham young, one of the country's top ten teams...