Word: flinging
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...this he would set up a clamor for "Rowbottom!" and other students, awakened from slumber, would fling open their windows and echo the cry, so that the sound sleeper's name, though he had long since moved on, has been immortalized on the Penn campus ever since: It takes only the cry of "Rowbottom!" to start a fracas at this season of the year. --The Philadelphia Inquirer...
...Gash, a timetable checker, had won an M.B.E. ( Member of the Order of the British Empire) for pioneering this kind of warfare. Linking up with Mau Mau gangs, but staying in the background ("My phony Kikuyu accent would have given me away"), Gash gathered intelligence information, then would suddenly fling aside his rags and open fire with a submachine gun. "It was a case of kill or be killed in the forest," said Gash. Another operator working with the Pseudos was William Baldwin, a young American on the Kenya police force, who had his U.S. passport lifted when Washington found...
...Lampy fling an antique jest And the Monthly gas on Ibsen...
...hero is a Swiss League of Nations observer bent on having one long extra-marital fling. The nameless heroine is a petite Japanese Mademoiselle Butterfly, who he hopes will prove a piece-de-non- resistance. But a series of Japanese throw themselves in his way, not to save her virtue, but his dignity, and above all Japan's face. There is a hotel proprietress who uncomprehendingly scalds him in the bath ("Honorable tepid bath . . . could not have been more than 113°''). There is a geisha who saves the hotel's honor by sacrificing her own ("I whispered only these words...
...grey-eyed Polly Veyron, an American girl on an extended fling to whom everything is "so exciting," Stenham looks pretty exciting, but cranky, too. Polly's head is stuffed with progressive sawdust, but her personality seems to have been forged at U.S. Steel. Her idea of mixing fun and politics is to give an Arab boy enough money to go out and buy himself a revolver. The boy in question is named Amar-cousin to Kipling's wily quiz kid, Kim. He makes a good deal of The Spider's House into a kind of child...