Word: flings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...holy. What then should we do when holy things are beneath the war machine or threatened by it? This is the issue and, in the presence of this reality, the overwhelming number of those who seek to know the mind of Christ find themselves following Him when they fling their lives against the war machine...
...Professor Wing can have his fling...
...Brigham Young University '36), said he felt hot. He stepped into a circle, heaved a discus clear across the lawn. He picked it up and heaved it again & again. Before he stopped heaving, he had broken the official world's record for the discus throw with a fling...
Writing and Restlessness. Ernie Pyle's first newspaper job was on the La Porte, Ind. Herald, whence he went in 1923 to the Washington Daily News (Scripps-Howard) as a reporter, later became a deskman. By 1932, after a brief fling at Manhattan news rooms, he had become the Washington Daily News's managing editor. Unhappy, in 1935 he asked for a roving assignment...
...away as neatly as love letters. Hungry moths and avid vermin are too liable to corrupt such earthly treasures. Hence they often pad the maws of ashcans and end their usefulness in dumps. For a cherished garment or a much-thumbed book, that fate is bitter. Far better to fling both clothes and texts, with a gesture of sublime extravagance, into the eager coffers of the Brooks House Old Clothes Drive which are secreted in the janitor's office and library of each House...