Word: snipering
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...screenplay, itself, is oversimplified. Starting with Kennedy's blinding by a German sniper, it traces his hospitalization and rehabilitation. But all of his problems are assumed related to his physical defect. No mention is made of his civilian life, or the possibility that blindness might have compounded former problems. This kind of treatment might be effective for an educational film; it leaves a large gap in a supposed piece of cinematic...
...dynamite was found wired to the starter of his car. That autumn, a rifleman shot him in the leg on the highway. Two months later, his wife Mildred got into his automobile, stepped on the starter and was killed by an explosion. A month after that, a sniper hit Noble with two bullets as he was leaving his house in Dallas. Another shot whanged through the window of his hospital room. Newspapers called Noble "the man with nine lives...
Last week a letter from a brother officer told of Hero Sutton's death near Suwon on Feb. 3. A sniper shot him in the head when he was setting up a forward defense post...
...Reds had pulled back, taking their wounded with them. Four times through the heat of the day the cursing, green-clad Legionnaires, red with sweat and black with paddy mud, made their attacks. Each time the Reds withdrew. To the south, French soldiers crossed neck-deep streams under sniper fire. They put their dead and wounded in a dugout canoe and went forward. From the river, Ensign Lecorche led his LCMs and LCVPs cautiously into the jungle by way of a narrow stream. A sniper's bullet hit Lecorche's second in command, and when Communist machine guns...
Warmer Weather. The Americans howled with anger as their rifle bullets fell short of him, then they quickly dropped flat again as a Red sniper peppered away at them. One American rolled over quietly with a wound in his head. Then four Marine Corsairs flew in with napalm and fused bombs. Hill 166 flared and flickered with fire. Still the Communists held...