Word: flings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Bricks Added. In the six months since the dispute began, the press had done little more than fling hot words and editorial darts at the State Department, but last week it began adding some bricks. Two U.S. newsmen who have defied the ban-Edmund Stevens of Look and William Worthy Jr. of the Baltimore Afro-American-made ready to invoke open hearings to fight the State Department's move to revoke their passports. Said Worthy, back in the U.S. after 41 days in Red China: "I want to embarrass the hell out of the State Department." The American Newspaper...
...another year comes to another end, we are tempted, as an outgoing board on our final fling, to cull up all of our wise editorials (and conveniently forget about the others) and piece them together to show you what we have been talking about for a year. If we surrendered to this temptation, we would probably say something about the need for imagination (and realism) in foreign policy, boldness (and gradualism) in domestic policy, and House-ification (and money) in University policy. But that would be dull to write, and certainly worse than dull to read. Either you have seen...
...tried to cross the Belgian frontier to join King Albert's expatriate army. Released at war's end, he studied law at Brussels, finished the five-year course in 2% years and, well-endowed with his father's gift for the dramatic, had a brief fling at the bar before entering politics as a fiery young Socialist (he was called a "Bolshevik in a dinner jacket"). In 1938 he became his nation's youngest Prime Minister, and has spent most of the years since either in that job or as Belgium's Foreign Minister...
...after this fling...
...incredible youngsters" had evolved their own technique for dealing with the mighty 26-ton tanks. First they would fire on the tanks from upper-story windows, then as the big T-345 rumbled up, their great guns elevated, a small boy would leap out of a doorway, fling a pail of gasoline over the tank's engine compartment and leap back to shelter. As the tank took fire and its crew scrambled out of the turret, the young Tommy-gunner firing from the windows above would mow them down. An alternate system was to slosh a bucket of gasoline...