Word: shoots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lands are so high and rocky that they could never be farmed. They are not, however, wholly unproductive. As private parks they are heavily taxed, and when the hunting season is on thousands of sportsmen drop thousands of pounds into the coffers of thrifty Scottish tradesmen. To shoot Scottish deer (and grouse) huntsmen spend some $3,500,000 annually in Scotland...
...look sloppy in the ranks but the army is well grounded in the essentials and its men are tough individual fighters, particularly on the defensive. In training the rank and file, the French forget fancier phases of close-order drill, concentrate on teaching men how to shoot. Majority of French ordnance is old; but, like a skilled automobile mechanic with a battered jalopy, French marksmen get the most out of 1914 Hotchkisses, 1897-model Seventy-fives. The French are short on good anti-tank guns, way behind in the air (nationalization of the aircraft industry was a flop under...
Meanwhile, many a panicky conservative institution, not knowing quite where to shoot, has laid aside its rifle and taken to firing buckshot. William Preston Few's Duke University, for example, offers no fewer than 739 undergraduate courses, has 35 separate courses in Greek alone...
Your Press editor seems to take quite seriously the New Masses' recent "exposure" of General Krivitsky. I should have expected TIME to be sophisticated enough to have looked into the following points: i) Why does the New Masses charge merely that Krivitsky-Ginsberg can't shoot a rifle and has never seen Stalin (two charges that by their nature can't be proved or disproved and anyway don't mean anything) while avoiding any attack on his main claim, which is that he was for some years chief of the Russian Military Intelligence Service for Western...
There is no obligation on the King or Queen to take any journalists on their laps or invite them to pull up chairs and shoot olive pits with them...