Hickok joined the antislavery Free State Army of Jayhawkers and, having already become skilled with a gun as a youth, served as a bodyguard for Gen. James H. Lanes.
Not to worry — from there he made friends with the Tlingit Indians, became skilled with the harpoon and the bow, and eventually crossed the whole of Siberia to return to Moscow.
Lawyers for the other defendants tried to separate the acts of their clients from those of Mr. Boyd, who investigators say attended terrorism training camps in Connecticut in the 1980s and others in Pakistan, where he practiced hand-to-hand combat and became skilled with military weapons.
Murphy dropped out of school in fifth grade and got a job picking cotton for a dollar a day to help support his family; he also became skilled with a rifle, hunting small game to help feed them.
Where there was high participation, residents became skilled at working with the police, their aldermen and other city officials.
Video-game actors become skilled at working with little or no context, and at providing varying inflections for any line on demand — a practice discouraged by many standard acting texts.
Eventually, you will become skilled at talking with gum in your mouth.
Publicists, wary of prying questions, have become skilled at compressing conversations with reporters to a bare minimum of minutes.
There was that spring when Robert was twelve and an invisible barrier seemed to descend over the neighborhood, and over the course of a month a handful of birds appeared with broken wings and Robert became skilled at capturing them, sneaking up with soothing words and a ready towel.
