Word: marksmanship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bayonets back in the sheath," said a Turkish private scornfully. "It was very irritating." The Turks then gave the Reds a lesson in marksmanship. Said a colonel: "When they did hit one of our men, it was in the arm or leg, always. When Turks shot Chinese-bang, right through the eyes." This boast was confirmed by a U.S. major who found scores of Chinese shot in the forehead...
...bomb-bay doors. Instead of swinging open, they slide into the plane like overhead garage doors. The falling bombs hit a smoothly flowing airstream instead of the uneven eddies stirred up by the old-style doors. Even above 500 m.p.h., all the bombs fall alike, a necessity for good marksmanship...
...Marksmanship & Green Moire. New York, the youngest of the queen cities, was smug and hopeful; but Florence, the earliest capital of the modern world, was merely relieved that the 19th Century was over. Italy's nationalist rebirth had indeed been glorious. Progress was everywhere; some Florentines thought that there was too much of it. With a sigh and a shrug Florence's Corriere Italiano saw the old century off: "Tomorrow a new year begins a new century we know nothing about. It does not matter. It is a new year. That is enough...