Word: marksmanship
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...brought him aboard. He had been shot from only a few feet away and he had a big hunk of his chest blown out. He pulled out of it somehow. When we got to talking to him we found that his attitude was one of complete disgust with Jap marksmanship. He said, 'If that had been a marine he would have shot me right square through the forehead...
Klein sharpened his marksmanship on grouse and rabbits near his home in New York's Rockland County. He quit interior decorating when he reached his majority and went to work for Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History. There he devised the technique of mounting animals in lifelike poses, with wire and plastic molds, which became the standard for modern museums...
...jitsu trick and somewhat erratic marksmanship were all that had saved the President. When Avila Camacho stepped from his Cadillac limousine at the ground-floor entrance of the Palacio Nacional, he was accosted by 1st Lieut. José Antonio de Lama y Rojas, son of a wealthy merchant from the President's home state of Puebla. As the President turned to enter the private elevator, the 32-year-old lieutenant pulled a .45 revolver, blazed away. Before a second shot could be fired, the President grasped the assassin's wrist, twisted it until the gun clattered...
Last week burly Sid Luckman hit his marksmanship top. Before a record crowd of 56,696 in Manhattan's Polo Grounds, he showed himself the best passer of the year, perhaps the best in football history. As his Chicago Bears gave the New York Giants the worst drubbing ever, 56-to-7, Sidney Luckman...
Back in Bisbee, Ariz., Benko's marksmanship was no surprise. He had always been a "gun nut," owned eleven weapons, reloaded his own ammunition. Long before he thumbed a machine gun, he was a champion rifle shot. Home-towners recognized his virtuosity: when he enlisted he was president of the Bisbee Rifle Club...