Word: shoots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suppose if I went by the book, we could take them out and shoot them for refusing an order in the face of the enemy," an American officer said yesterday. "But they're back in the field doing their duty...
...briefing [the night before the assault] was, 'Do we kill women and children?' My reply was that 'No, you do not kill women and children. You must use common sense. If they have a weapon and are trying to engage you, then you can shoot back, but you must use common sense.' " Further, said Medina, "there were no instructions given as far as the capture or collection of any noncombatants in the village...
Quick, now, basketball fans, who is the best college forward in the country? Sidney Wicks of U.C.L.A.? Well, some pro scouts insist that unpublicized Travis Grant of Kentucky State can shoot circles around Wicks. How about the best guard? Wrong again-not Austin Carr of Notre Dame. Those in the know say that Tuskegee has a ball-hawking hustler named Kendall Mayfield who has moves that make Carr look like he is standing still...
...reap big rewards. Ask the world champion New York Knickerbockers. No fewer than three of their starting five-Walt Frazier of Southern Illinois, Willis Reed of Grambling and Dick Barnett of Tennessee State-are N.A.l.A. alumni. They all sharpened their skills in the prostyle brand of run-and-shoot that is played in the N.A.l.A...
...that transformed a rather ordinary war movie into an astonishing personal tour de force and won him an Oscar nomination. Characteristically, he declined Hollywood's gilded accolade. He professes as much indifference to screen acting as to its awards. "Film is not an actor's medium," Scott says. "You shoot scenes in order of convenience, not the way they come in the script, and that's detrimental to a fully developed performance. There's the terrible tedium and boredom involved in waiting around for the camera to be set up, and then you have to turn on and off when...