Word: marksmanship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worst hours of the most reckless rioting, many white Americans feared that the fire next time would strike where the white man lives and works. This ugly vision of race war on the white man's doorstep led bridge-playing suburban housewives to sign up for marksmanship practice. It was a vision amply fueled by the unbridled rhetoric of black militants, but it has not come to pass...
...dark rites of the Hitler Jugend, marked the end of a busy season for the Society for Sport and Technology (Gesellschaft f$#252;r Sport und Technik). All summer long, G.S.T.'s 600,000 East German boys and girls between 14 and 18 had been learning drill and marksmanship, parachuting and radio operating...
...would want their sport circumscribed?or destroyed?by too-stringent gun laws. Thousands of other Americans engage in such pastimes as skeet and trap shooting, muzzle-loading competitions with old-style rifles, and bench-rest shooting, whose enthusiasts weigh their powder, mold their bullets and come close to perfect marksmanship...
...than 4,500 letters and telegrams running 15 to 1 in favor of his stand reached his office. Some even suggested that Daley run for President. Few of the hard-liners noted that in the confusion of a riot, police would have to be veritable Lone Rangers in their marksmanship to pick off arsonists or to "maim" running looters, supposedly hitting them in the legs to bring them down. Moreover, warned U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, the indiscriminate use of "deadly force" could lead to "a very dangerous escalation of the problems we are so intent on solving...
...part, the Army received a supply of well-trained marksmen. In 1965, the Arthur D. Little Co. found that previous marksmanship training--such as that given by NRA clubs--aided the rifle scores of Army draftees. The American Rifleman, the NRA's magazine, regularly publishes an "honor roll" of NRA members who receive medals in Vietnam. As of March, they had two Medals of Honor, eight silver stars, nine bronze stars, one Navy Cross and one Distinguished Flying Cross on the roll...