Word: marksmanship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...until Hitler's Panzer divisions blitzkrieged France out of World War II in 1940 did the Army really begin its own tank program. Assigned to the brand-new 4th Armored Division, Abrams rose to command the 37th Battalion with the rank of major, drilled his tankers incessantly in marksmanship-particularly on getting in the second shot. Says Abrams: "We really shot much too much, but God, it paid off later...
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...
...throw the bodies of his son and daughter on the crematory fires. An Israeli electrical worker described an SS man courteously asking a mother to hand over her baby, then dashing its head against the pavement. Other witnesses testified that the Nazi soldiers delighted in testing their revolver marksmanship by aiming at the tips of a Jew's fingers and nose, and forced husbands to have sex relations with other men's wives in view of their children...
...Bottle. For twelve hours the chatter of automatic weapons was punctuated by the deeper thud of shells from Congolese armored cars. Pitch-darkness and bad marksmanship limited the casualties to one Tunisian and four Congolese dead, eleven Tunisians and 30 Congolese wounded. With morning, firing finally stopped, and British General Henry Alexander, commander in chief of the Ghanaian army, appeared...
...returns on Crosby's pronouncement were something less than a vote of confidence. About half the 82 newspapers that carry his TV comments are expected to drop his new column. The reaction did not dismay Crosby, who expects that when the public has learned to appreciate his moral marksmanship, "twice as many papers will carry my column as we have...