Word: skeet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...toward coddling delegates from nonprimary states. He is ready to edify conventions large or small with a half-hour film and pep-talk program, and delegates will also get a pictorial biography of the candidate showing him getting an honorary degree from Troy State University, snuggling Girl Scouts, shooting skeet, chatting with cops, and even posing as Santa Claus...
...nearly hermetic privacy, no place was better than Camp David on Maryland's Catoctin Mountain. Tricia especially liked getting away from the omnipresent guards and tourists around the White House grounds. Along with privacy, the camp, like a resort hotel, offered swimming, tennis, skeet shooting, putting green, movies, bicycling and roller-skating. Tricia, who calls herself "the world's most unathletic woman," tried to keep up with Ed, who has an almost indiscriminate passion for sports. "The only time I have seen Edward uncoordinated," Tricia says, "is on a surfboard." In winter there is a roaring fire in the lodge...
...Wearing a blue shirt and chinos for an outing with 18 young friends of Tricia, David and Julie at Camp David, where there was no pomp amid rustic circumstance, Charles expertly potted three doubles in a row at skeet. "He's great," said the admiring David. Atop the 555-ft. Washington Monument, Charles was exhilarated by the view of the capital under a full summer moon and impulsively suggested: "Let's walk down." While Anne determinedly led Tricia and Julie toward the elevator, the prince, one hand tucked jauntily in a pocket, paced David down the 898 steps...