Word: marksmanship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...school, younger and thinner than most of his classmates, and usually alone, he found a haven inside an ROTC uniform, wore it every day everywhere-always with field jacket, so that no one could see from the shoulder patch that he was not a real soldier. He won a marksmanship trophy and the American Legion's Americanism Award, and he became so gung-ho that he tried to get into World War II at 16, lied about his age and spent two weeks in uniform before his mother took him home. Noting all this, Harry Sahl began pondering...
...tones a range of inflections-ardor, indignation, surprise-that told the viewer in the twist of a phrase everything about the don he needed to know. Less effective than Siepi dramatically, Negro Soprano Leontyne Price sang the role of Donna Anna in a richly textured voice, with dead-sure marksmanship and apparent power to spare. (Her appearance caused the rejection of the show by eleven of NBC's Southern affiliates...
...Elvis, just helping build up a TV singeroo slated for early May. By then, Elvis will again be supporting himself in the civilian style to which he is currently unaccustomed, collecting a cool $125,000 for a network appearance with Frankie. Elvis, proudly wearing medals for good conduct and marksmanship, promised that he will soon climb back into his gaudiest working mufti, agitate his pelvis as of yore ("If I stand still, I'm dead") and "never abandon rock 'n' roll as long as people keep appreciatin' it." But Army rigors had at least one benign...
They are basketball's greatest team, a band of talented opportunists who can do everything-shoot with bull's-eye marksmanship, dissect a defense with pinpoint passes, and, for good measure, spice the exhibition with the tang of showmanship...
...generalities" led to a shift in the attitudes of both the U.S. public and the Eisenhower Administration. The President, who had firmly backed the industry's campaign for a noninflationary settlement, began to see that he was fighting beside allies who were short on both ammunition and marksmanship. He began leaning toward the view that it made a lot more sense to head off the economic damage of a prolonged steel strike than to fight out the battle against inflation on the steel industry's thin line...