Word: skeet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...amazed Europeans. Should the U. S. be invaded during World War II, enemy parachutists may have more than U. S. soldiers to reckon with. Sprinkled all over the country is an army of 100,000 amateur sharpshooters (20% of them women & children), developed in the past decade on the skeet fields of U. S. country clubs...
...fifth columnist been at Syracuse, N. Y. last week, he might well have been uneasy. There, at the Onondaga Skeet Club, 270 sharp shots met in the sixth annual tournament of the National Skeet Shooting Association. First crack out of the box, in the 28-gauge event, two youngsters - 15-year-old Bobby Parker and 18-year-old Dick Shaughnessy - after tying three other contestants (at 99 out of 100) fought a breathtaking, shoulder-to-shoulder duel for five 25-bird shoot-offs before Parker finally missed a bird. It was the longest shoot-off witnessed on any skeet field...
...California the legislature approved a plan to organize Citizen Guards units patterned after the Swiss Home Guards. In Chicago, 300 crack shots of the Illinois Skeet Association, the American Police Revolver League, etc., formed the Sports men's Defense Reserve, pledged to organize the 7,000,000 members of U. S. shooting and rifle clubs into "a civilian army of modern minute...