Word: marksman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Strapping Germans. "Claude," his mother whimpered, "don't you think that tomorrow we should go to see the doctor again?" The son struck her angrily. He jumped up to get his Mauser, began to clean and polish, clean and polish. He was a marksman, proud of his success in shooting competitions. When World War II broke out, he had eagerly joined the French army. But all spring and summer in 1940, he marched endlessly over the roads of France, without so much as seeing an enemy to fire at. He returned to Calais to look with the eyes...
...desert is mirage-haunted and the track through it is marked by carcasses and bleached bones of camels slaughtered by Kazak wanderers for the water in their stomachs. Tough Moslem soldiers with us shot down desert antelope and huang yang, or yellow sheep. One marksman quickly slashed his quarry's jugular and guzzled the hot blood in the belief that this conveyed to him huang yang's keen eyesight. We preferred to quench our thirst more prosaically with Sinkiang's wonderfully succulent melons, bought at oasis towns along...
Last year's top marksman, Lou Gerstley '45, reports that when, in the midst of firing, a steam valve from the pumping equipment located nearby blows, the result of the aim is often pretty bad. More fortunate M.I.T. can boast of a modern indoor firing range, complete with soundproofing and overhead target carriers...
Most startling were the estimates of U.S. bombing accuracy, which were a long way from such ebullient claims as A.A.F. General Henry H. Arnold's 1943 statement: "We did it ... aiming our explosives with the care and accuracy of a marksman firing a rifle at a bull's-eye. ..." A typical 1944-45 score, in the coldly factual language of the new report: 3.5% hits in a factory area covering three and a half square miles (see chart...
Johnny Bach, the tall center who was the driving force in Brown's victory over the Crimson earlier in January, again led the Brown sharpshooters. Compiling the same total as in the first engagement, Bach scored ten field goals for 20 points. Leading marksman among his teammates was Captain George Grumshaw, with 11 tallies...