Word: skeet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...influences dominated his one hobby-shooting and hunting. He became one of the crack shots of the service, captained rifle teams, became a skeet champion. On his leaves he packed off to hunt big game-caribou and moose in Canada, elephants and tigers in Indo-China...
...marriage, at 40, was Army: he met tall, blue-eyed Mrs. Mildred Lee Buckner, widow of an Army flight surgeon, at a Langley Field dinner dance. She loves Army life. Hodges taught her to shoot and hunt (she is among the country's top women skeet shots). Mrs. Hodges lives in Atlanta, wishes the General had time to write more often, tell a little more about himself when he does...
...aide: "There's a couple of pheasant-in that field over there." His aide, Captain Lewis D. Bridge, peering at the brownish specks 300 yards away, could recall with good reason that his boss was a famous hunter, one of the Army's finest riflemen and skeet shooters...
...Skeet, skat, skat, skeet, skat, skoo...
...Chesapeake Bay, Arkansas's White River bottoms and Suynsun Marshes in California will have good shooting this year-if they can find anything to shoot with. Luckiest hunters of all are U.S. Air Forces pilots along the Alaska Military Highway. To keep their eyes in by skeet shooting, they are well supplied with shells. By switching from clay pigeons to live ducks they will be saving their own skins: duck feathers are used in flying suits...