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Word: skeets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fashioned transatlantic voyage. The five-star resort has three 18-hole golf courses and 15 tennis courts. In the cavernous lobby, where half a dozen roaring fireplaces give off the gentle fragrance of burning hickory and high tea is served while a string trio plays, notices offer skeet shooting or trout fishing. There is also horseback riding or jaunts in a surrey, along with bowling, swimming and spa waters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Fun and Expletives Repleted | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

...pleased with the atmosphere at the Leeds Castle talks. There mediators mixed casually, dined together and strolled quietly around the grounds, while the press was kept at a distance. At Camp David the participants will be able to mix business and pleasure; there is swimming, bowling, tennis and skeet shooting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: A Move in the Chess Game | 8/21/1978 | See Source »

...like jelly beans as they draw a day's supply of ammunition. "Did you count 'em? I give you 18, didn't I?" says one. "Now, you know I can't count," comes the reply. One of them tells me they are going to shoot skeet. "Yeah, down at the skeet march," adds another. Every skeet one finds this hilarious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Mississipi: The KKK Suits Up | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

...April, Telesensory Systems Inc., of Palo Alto, Calif., will start marketing a game center consisting of eight games for the unsighted; oscillating tones will replace the screen markings for contests like paddle ball; and synthesized speech will be used for other games such as tic-tac-toe, blackjack and skeet shoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Computer Society: Living: Pushbutton Power | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

...Solomon envious. Operated with military efficiency by about 100 Navy men and Marines, it can provide almost anything a President might want: a free-form heated swimming pool, a sauna, two clay tennis courts, a one-hole, three-tee golf course, a two-lane bowling alley, a trout stream, skeet-shooting and archery range, movie facilities, a wide selection of music (Richard Nixon used to stand in front of the stereo speakers and "guest conduct" his favorite symphonies fortissimo). Comments former Nixon Counsel John Dean: "It has a rustic feel but no rustic hardship. If Baked Alaska is what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Camp David: A Palatial Retreat | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

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