Word: sling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lines, costing the company a good part of $100,000. When he was jailed for six months. Public Service men offered to get him paroled if he would promise to let the company's wires alone. He refused the peace. Last week he went out again with a sling shot. He shot a sinker attached to a fishing line over the high tension wires. Then he tied scissors to the end of the line, pulled on the sinker until the scissors slid into place across the wires, short-circuiting the whole Scotch Plains system and costing the company...
...Afghans are probably the world's most violent people. They kill strangers for a small breach of etiquet. When Afghan kings really dislike a man, they boil him in oil or strangle him with chains. The only possessions an Afghan keeps clean are his rifle, his sling of cartridges, his short dagger and his bayonet sword...
Weapons men use, stone, sling and strong-thewed...
...fastest game in the world, and one of the most interesting is Pelota, the Spanish game," contends Big Bill. "My gawd! Do they sling that ball! If it ever hit anyone it would kill him," he exclaimed. "No, I don't play it," he added. "It is usually all fixed before the game starts...
...real reason was that the call for the Convention had not as yet received the authorization of Congress. When Congress finally sanctioned the Convention, he accepted at once. It is true that he was suffering from rheumatism to such an extent that he "had his arm in a sling for ten days at a time." Lack of ready money also hampered...