Word: marksmanship
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...over almost an entire paper. Predictably, among the nation's newspapers the New York Times's coverage was unique in its thoroughness. The Times gave its first 16 pages to the story and found room for nearly everything-including a separate appraisal of Lee Oswald's marksmanship as a marine (NOT A CRACK SHOT, ran the questionable headline). The Times assigned 40 men to the story in New York, sent six other reporters winging to the aid of Tom Wicker, who was in Dallas with the presidential party...
...dinner, his liveried chief huntsman stations himself behind the count's chair to summon a footman whenever his mas ter's wineglass is empty. Prince Emich zu Leiningen, 36, whose escutcheon is at least 880 years old, is a globe-trotting big-game hunter who honed his marksmanship as a youth by taking potshots at family portraits in his handsome baroque palace at Amorbach...
Killing for Enchiladas. The characters who claim to have noble motives for rebelling are shot down with literary marksmanship by Azuela. An intellectual journalist "from the city" joins the peasants and awes them with his ideology: "We are the tools Destiny makes use of to reclaim the sacred rights of the people." But the intellectual soon sells out the "people" for power. He starts pimping for his rebel boss, even sacrificing the girl who loves him. Another character supplies a typical romantic reaction to revolution...
Sounds of Death. West Berliners watch fretfully as the barricade grows more formidable and its servants' marksmanship improves. The Wall has become an all-pervasive part of life in Berlin. At their backs, West Berliners feel the cold-eyed scrutiny of the Communist cops, whose duty is to guard their frontier not from those outside, but against their own people. Hardly a night passes without the rattle of gunfire and the sounds of death from the other side. To West Berliners, the Wall is a calendar: they will recall a date by saying, "It happened the month before...
...worked and occasionally puzzled his mildly curious fellow citizens. "The posted woods on my property contain several tame squirrels," he advised them a few years ago in a sarcastic no-trespassing notice he published in the weekly Oxford Eagle. "Any hunter who feels himself too lacking in woodcraft and marksmanship to approach a dangerous wild squirrel, might feel safe with these." But the real county is the one Faulkner invented, just as the real Troy is Homer's. Faulkner began to survey his birthright in 1929, with his third novel, Sartoris, modeling its chief character after his own greatgrandfather...