Word: sureshot
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...Jackie Wilson Said (I'm in Heaven When You Smile)" follows the tradition started by "Domino" and continued by "Wild Night." Van Morrison, no matter what'll happen the rest of the way through, opens with a rocker. This is the sureshot; if I don't hear this on WRKO's top ten instantly, I'm going to want to know way. It has everything, scat sung opening, with handclapping, a gorgeous eight bar progression, mostly nonsense lyrics, two horns overdubbed to make four, more energy than 2:56 deserves, and the musical resurrection of the words...
Lenore Jensen grew up surrounded by sureshot kin, practiced marksmanship as a tot. "When Lenore was two," recalls her mother, "she carried a toy rifle around with her. She'd sprawl out on the living room floor, and people would laugh and say, 'Look at that. Perfect prone position.' " Her father, who died when Lenore was eleven, was a topflight competitive marksman; her mother has been firing smallbore rifles for 24 years, last year won the National Women's Any Sight Championship. Stepfather Marvin Driver is a crack pistol shot and longtime director of the National...
...must to all men, Death came to Mrs. Annie Oakley ("Little Sureshot") Butler, 66, most marked markswoman in history, at Greenville, Ohio, after long illness. She had directed that they cremate her remains; bury her ashes in Darke County, Ohio, where she began handling firearms at a tender age to supply her widowed mother with game...
...hundred thousand dollars worth of mementos she collected, none were more valuable to her than the personal effects willed to her by Sitting Bull, famed Sioux chief, who named her "Watanic Cicilia" (Little Sureshot). She could hit pennies tossed in the air or larger discs (in the centre or on the edge as requested) ; shoot holes in playing cards or tickets fluttering in the air; stand on one foot, throw three eggs aloft, hit each with her rifle before it squashed...