Word: shooting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Torture & Triumph. The seven Astronauts of Project Mercury were winnowed out by the most searching tests man could devise and machine could execute. Last winter, just after new Space Administrator T. Keith Glennan ordered the space shoot, the Air Force, Navy and Marines selected the nation's no likeliest military test pilots (requirement: at least 1,500 flight hours). Clattering IBM punch-card selectors pared the list to 69 men of optimum size, health, intelligence. Offered a chance to volunteer...
...with the sexual frustrations of Joanne Woodward, here playing young Quentin. This role is considerably less subtle and sophisticated, alternating between petulance and passion with monotonous regularity. The latter emotion vents itself on Stuart Whitman, the roustabout in a travelling carnival, whom she meets climbing down off the shoot-the-shoot, finding herself five minutes later in the first of several sweaty love scenes...
...Contreras to a bullet-scarred wall, 36 feet from the firing squad. "Atención!" yelled Marks at 1:13 a.m. "Preparen . . . apunten . . . fuego!" After the volley, Marks stepped up to Contreras' writhing body, fired the coup de grâce with his .45 automatic-then had to shoot two more times before his man finally died. Guards took off Contreras' shoes, fingerprinted him, placed him in a plain wooden coffin, and loaded him aboard a hearse for delivery to waiting relatives. By 1:55 a.m., all three prisoners were dead, and Marks's work was ended...
...Three competitors. Where does he hunt it? At conventions, Rotary meetings, congressional hearings, wherever he can find a platform or a soapbox. He closes in on the quarry with a verbal barrage. Back and forth he rocks, clenching his fists, screwing his handsome face into an intense mask. Out shoot the words in evangelical, organlike tones; down flies his big fist to shake the dust from the table...
...gunsharks-with the help of sawed barrels, tied triggers, shifted grips, lowered hammers and greased holsters-could slap leather and spill five shots, all in less than a second. (The modern record is claimed by a Denver butcher named Jim-no kin to Matt -Dillon: draw and shoot in twelve-hundredths of a second.) Most of them, besides, carried a "stingy gun" and were masters of the border shift and the road agent's spin...