Word: snipering
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...derring-do, Communist frogmen swam down the Perfume and neatly dropped the center span of the last remaining bridge over the river, despite the fact that the allies held both bridgeheads. Boats thus became the main means of evacuation and supply, and each boat ran a gauntlet of NVA sniper fire. But at week's end the NVA pockets of resistance were slowly shrinking, and all of the city except a part of the Citadel had been seized by the allies...
Oswald Alone. Specifically, Sparrow zeroes in on the elaborate theoretical situations the critics have constructed to bolster their contention that the assassination was a consummately scripted plot. One such thesis is that a sniper-not necessarily Lee Harvey Oswald-fired at the President from the Texas School Book Depository at the very moment that one or several other assassins fired from the grassy knoll overlooking the highway...
...Grisly Desolation. For one more day and night the two battalions waited while fighter-bomber pilots hammered the head off the hill, flying some 150 strikes during the battle. The next morning, the weary G.I.s claimed their reward at last. Scaling the ridge, they met only scattered sniper fire and a few mortars lobbed from a nearby hill. The North Vietnamese had abandoned Hill 875 during the night, taking many of their dead with them. The summit was a grisly desolation of charred and splintered trees, burned-out machine guns and blackened fragments of bodies...
...understand him; Robert Welch's conspiratorial John Birchers don't trust him. He may not be able to help it, but he is too clever, too humorous, too well read, too (in the current all-purpose adjective of the liberal Establishment) "attractive." He is a solitary sniper, taking skillful shots at the Great Society, at peaceful coexisters, at the heirs and assigns of John F. Kennedy, at Lindsay-woolsey Republicans. Sometimes even an enemy smiles as Buckley hits the mark; sometimes his own rhetorical smoke screen obscures the target. Yet he never tires of the battle...
...trajectory, worked in some Kentucky windage to allow for the breeze, and squeezed off three rounds. The third hit the Viet Cong officer in the head. He was dead before the crack of the rifle ever reached his ears. "A lucky shot," the sergeant conceded. But he and his sniper buddies have learned to make such luck commonplace...