Word: skeet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...breakdown of injuries, with fatalities in parentheses: Softball, 703; football, 520-basketball, 504; water sports, 359 (76); winter sports, 154; baseball, 147; volleyball, 137-skeet shooting, 76 (1); hunting, 70 (2); hiking, 16-others, 536. The Air Force reported that 32,013 man-days were lost, at a cost...
...tendency to yip at everything from murder to pay raises for Houston city councilmen. Alarmed at Houston's high murder rate, the Press labeled the city "Murdertown, U.S.A.," campaigned so relentlessly for tighter gun registration laws that it drew scathing mail from nearly every quail-hunting and skeet-shooting type in Texas. Last January, impatient with the slow-moving police investigation into the slaying of Houston Housewife Wilma Selby, the Press rapped the police in an editorial and posted a reward for the killer. The chastened police promptly bestirred themselves, within ten days collared Mrs. Selby's murderer...