Hello Don...

Subject: Re: [FFML] Re: [fanfic][Ranma] Comes the Cold Dragon: Part
VIbRewrite 1

This last was greeted with a grim silence, as the
uniformed officers made a show of carefully re-drawing their
beads. The old man heaved a sigh of exasperation then looked

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NO. It is less common now, but at one time virtually all gun sights had a
cylindrical section in the top of the blade of the front sight. Looking at
it from the rear sight, it looks like a bead, hence "drawing a bead" is
taking careful aim.

How about this?
"...carefully re-drawing their aim on him."

with his elbows. It was a fairly effective stratagem.

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I could not figure out which word you were asking about on this one.

I was asking about "stratagem".

discomfiture, but they somehow managed.

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No, it's a real word. Discomfit, the verb, means to "rout, defeat or scatter
in flight: to disconcert, foil, or frustrate plans of."
 
Discomfiture, the noun, means "Rout, defeat, frustration, disappointment or
embarrassment." In this context, the very last possible meaning should be
taken.

Hmmm... that mey be correct, but it does not sound right to me.

Mfg. Joerg
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