Word: potshotting
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Along with this frontal attack came a potshot from within McNaughton's own Liberal Party, and the Cabinet itself. In Ottawa's Press Gallery, Navy Minister Angus L. Macdonald plunked himself down behind the green-topped poker table, answered a question thrown out by Ken Cragg of the Tory-minded Toronto Globe & Mail: "What about this business of ships being sunk...
Hardly any of this is as interesting as the improvising that Bendix (materially assisted by Miranda) does with the King's English. As an ambitious nightclub entrepreneur, he substitutes affability for finesse and rides to glory as a Broadway producer, pausing periodically to potshot people who think high-flown language is better than low-blown horse sense...
...FORCE INTACT STILL FIGHTING BADLY NEEDS BOOTS MONEY QUININE TOMMYGUN AMMUNITION." Soon the needs were flown in and the Sparrows went to work. They ambushed four Japanese officers and 50 men. They dynamited bridges and burned camps. They sniped and rushed and potshot until by last week they claimed 30 Jap officers and 500 men. They had lost exactly three Sparrows...
...Took a sizzling potshot at Roman Catholic attempts to interfere with Protestant proselytizing in Latin America...
...think the people could. Army and Navy communiqués stressed good news, toned down bad. The President, in a testy mood, appeared to feel that the people did not yet understand the war. Congressmen, bogged in gloom and desperately trying to save face on their self-pension bill, potshot at each other...