Word: marksmanship
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...Brandeis quintet had gone into its swan song and had yet to emerge from the profound torpor. In a singular exhibition of botched marksmanship, the Judges repeatedly rent the oxygen with reckless abandon from any and all points on the floor, as their shooting percentage rivalled the life expenctancy of starved fruit flies...
...Sato in June of this year, a right-wing extremist slipped through the lines and punched Prime Minister Takeo Miki in the face, knocking him down. That prompted formation of a new security force modeled on the U.S. Secret Service and made up of crack recruits trained in judo, marksmanship and detection of movement within a 90 vision field. The greatest threat of violence in recent years has come from new-left radicals, some 6,000 of whom have vowed to stop Emperor Hirohito from boarding his plane this week for a state visit to the U.S. Japanese officials will...
...competition in baseball, swimming, tennis, golf, and skiing because of the high travel costs involved. The University of Vermont decided last fall to drop its entire football program as part of a $1.3 million overall budget reduction. Syracuse has eliminated its teams in baseball, tennis, golf, fencing, and rifle marksmanship within the past three years. And, last fall, Ivy League members voted to reduce football staffs to no more than seven full-time coaches...
...unpopular with many reporters. "I wouldn't get into one of those coffins with masses of correspondents," says New York Times Correspondent Terence Smith. Indeed, on one trip, bus drivers ventured too close to the battle line and came under Syrian air and artillery attack. Only poor marksmanship averted a major press disaster...
...first game of the final play-off series for the National Basketball Association championship was basketball at its whirling, swirling, entertaining best. Skill not size, strategy not speed, and marksmanship not muscle were the dominant factors as the poised New York Knicks upset the prestigious Los Angeles Lakers 114-92. Even the Lakers were awed as the sharpshooting Knicks passed and moved through swift, intricate patterns; in the first half, they hit 72% of their field shots. Rasped Los Angeles Coach Bill Sharman, victim of a long siege of laryngitis: "They could be the best-shooting team in basketball...