Word: marksmanship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From that point on, it was pretty much of a battle of substitutes. Bob Bowditch, who is now recovering from a bad cold, began to find the range and it was his seven tallies coupled with Harrington's marksmanship that kept the score from being more one-sided...
...there like mosquitoes. Your attack on Moncada was & big mistake." Castro, who had already named his movement "26th of July'' for the date of the Moncada attack, was hurt. But he force-marched his rebels through the mountains 15 hours a day, learned mapmaking, bomb making and marksmanship. On Nov. 26, 1956, Castro and 81 revolutionaries set to sea from Tuxpam on the Gulf of Mexico aboard their Prío-bought 62-ft. yacht Gramma...
Thus, it looks as though the Crimson will be a run-and-gun team this year. "We can shoot," Wilson emphasizes, and indeed the squad will have to rely on the marksmanship of its backcourt...
...Ambassador Andrew G. Gilchrist, began pitching stones and bricks. Inside, Ambassador Gilchrist, a 48-year-old Scot with a Vandyke beard, reacted in the approved pukka sahib tradition. He put on a bagpipe recording to drown out the shouts from the street, and remarked of the mob's marksmanship that "if they were cricket players, they would be better shots." He further daunted the unruly natives by walking his dog at the height of the uproar and coolly staring down the nearest mobsters. "Nothing to it," he remarked casually, returning to his window-shattered residence...
...launched only minutes earlier from a pad at the Cape Canaveral missile test center. Hoisted aboard Escape, the recovered cone proved that the Army had solved both the reentry problem and the accuracy problem. Hitting the target area at a range of 1,600 miles was a feat of marksmanship considerably more remarkable than nicking a dime with a rifle...