Word: skeet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marion Price, witty and a good storyteller, complements her husband, who has little small talk and forgets jokes as soon as he hears them. They shoot together at a nearby skeet club, where the dues are a year and members work their own traps; they go bird hunting and like to fish for dolphin off Florida (which they did last week). At home, the Prices and their three sons long had an unwritten rule that nobody would make outside dates on Sunday nights, when they all ate together in front of the fireplace. The sons are now grown, but Lawyer...
...Humphrey cottoned to each other even more. Hum phrey's dry, quick sallies in the wardroom often broke the atmosphere of heavy deliberation, to Ike's relief. And on deck, to Ike's surprise, Old Hunter Humphrey turned out to be every bit as good a skeet-shooter as Old Soldier Eisenhower...
...Magic Sound. As soon as he sits down in his office, problems are ready to pop out at him like clay pigeons at a skeet shoot. For example, some $69 billion of the $267 billion public debt will come due during 1953-Since the $69 billion obviously can't be paid off, it will have to be refinanced...
Fifth man Jack Brophy fired a 72, his best score of the season, to beat Amherst's Skeet Ellis, 2 and 1. The two-over-par round was Brophy's best of the season. In sixth position, George Wheeling topped Dave Cummings of the Lord Jeffs 2 and 1. Brophy and Wheeling won the best-ball match...
...lost out last year because he missed one bird. But this year he never wavered. When the din and the powder smell had faded away, he had raised his score to 250 out of 250 in the shootoff, to become the first three-time champion (1948, 1949) in National Skeet history...