Word: shoot
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Died. General Ma Chan-shan, 65, onetime Chinese war hero; in Peking. Little, shaven-polled General Ma was both an illiterate, sharpshooting militarist (who bragged that he could shoot birds from a galloping horse) and a man of cultivated tastes (he fancied Mongolian silks and had staffmen read poetry aloud to him). Against Japan's march on Manchuria in 1931, he led the only serious resistance in North China to the invaders, then sold out and was briefly a puppet ruler...
...economy will stand" and "what public opinion will approve," without knowing any of the answers. In doing so, they had been diverted from their prime function of telling the country what it needed to survive. Right after Korea, pound-foolish Louis Johnson had repentantly told the Joint Chiefs to shoot the works. Then George Marshall, taking over in September in the optimistic days of the Korean war, had ordered a careful re-sighting on all grand plans. The re-sighting held things up even more, but, the nation could only hope, made possible a more sensible program when the nation...
...could only shoot arrows at eagles on the wing...
While feigning a respectable amount of civilized horror at the exigencies of battle, Breakthrough romanticizes the hell out of war. On the level of a shoot-'em-up action film with some coincidental resemblance to the events it pretends to depict, it is a well-staged, workmanlike job. As any kind of memorial to the men who died in its newsreel clips, it is a great deal less...
After that, according to Time of Decision, Ted's whole life changed. He began to learn about first aid ("teaches self-reliance and self-preservation"), teamwork ("a help in football"), and how to shoot ("trains the eye and steadies the nerves"). His uniform added glamour ("Boy, will I ever knock 'em dead in this!"), and by the time he was a senior, Ted was so popular that he was "one of the men chosen to escort the campus queen...