Word: flings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Highland Fling...
...Crimson to slip by its heavier, more experienced opponents. Even the superb line play of Eddie Davis, Ned Dewey, Chuck Glynn, and Jack Fisher would not have won the ball game without that last-minute trick of inserting southpaw, Tom Gannon, to fake a left end run and fling a pass just over the goal...
...delivery truck, learned about street sales, home sales, customer complaints against carrier boys, sat around drinking with the drivers after work. Using another name (in Chicago, salesmen are not named Marshall Field except as a gag), he sold classified ads over the telephone. Then he took a fast fling at promotion copy and a quick look at the local, national and amusement advertising departments...
...while away the time on long air hops Monty took a fling at an old U.S. pastime. "Your people have been showing me a new game with dice. They call it shooting craps. It's been a lot of fun. We've been shooting craps for matches in the air." Added the hero of El Alamein: "I've lost all my paper matches...
...Sheridan, who was not built for laughs, satisfied a childhood ambition, took a brief fling at clowning with Ringling Bros., in Grand Rapids. Out of her clown clothes she was a much better show...