Word: sling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Please discontinue sending TIME. . . . you should be neutral and not sling mud as you did about Republican Convention TIME, June 22 . . . That is little...
...public prints with characteristic acumen seized upon this case as juicy and slightly smelly news. Political nerves in general are so jumpy these days that any chance to sling a little mud is snapped up avidly. Consequently only by reading General Craig's memorandum is it possible to realize why Hagood should be punished, regardless of any political significance his case may have...
...treating a patient, Dr. Hantlig seats him in a comfortable chair, puts a well-padded sling under his chin and the back of his head. The sling is connected with pulley blocks suspended from the ceiling...
Earthquakes and glass flowers apparently never caused much concern among the architects of the University Museum. The massive horizontal timbers which support the several floors are not firmly attached to the walls. Instead, each end of the beam rests in an iron sling which is in turn suspended from a stout "bracketlike" bar, anchored in the wall masonry. All of which leaves the beam free to move in its supporting sling...
...freight yards at Lucerne two special cars were hastily prepared, one for the body of Astrid, the other for Leopold alone. Dressed in a plain black suit, his jaw taped, his arm in a white sling, the King entered the car early in the evening, waited in the yards until the St. Gothard Express chuffed in from Milan. All through the night, as the train streaked across Europe, the King sat in his car with only his Premier and his secretary for company. Early next morning a squadron of cavalry led the body of Queen Astrid back through the streets...