Word: sling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fields, great, greying, polyp-nosed comedian, whose propensity for strong spirits is famed,* lay abed in Los Angeles' Queen of Angels Hospital, his nose in a sling, roundly denying reports that he had fallen flat on his face. Fields: "I never reach my face when I fall flat because I can't get past my nose. ... I was leaning too heavy on a cane getting into bed. The cane slipped and I fell. It hurts quite a bit, y'know, and I have to resort to medicinal mixtures...
...General turned to start his march down the Champs Elysees, the person closest to him was a Negro in a dirty white shirt, his arm in a sling made of a dirty towel. He was one of the bravest fighters in Paris' week-long battle for liberation, and there was something significant in the nearness of this symbol of a new, militant, common man's France...
Taken tangle by tangle, Knots is instructive and often amusing. From Archer to Yachtsman, it describes the knots of nearly 100 occupations, including the baker's pretzel twist and the parachutist's sling. It gives explicit instructions on how to spit and truss a fowl, lace a football, mend a garden hose, string pearls, fly a kite, string a fiddle, tie a necktie. It offers such engaging oddments as the Norfolk-to-Washington Boat Heaving Line Knot, Department-Store Loop, Cuckold's Neck Knot, Bathrobe Cord Knot...
Fifteen months ago, West Pointer McNair got away from his desk for a while, went to Tunisia to see his pupils perform in battle. It was a brief and unlucky experience: in his first day under fire he was wounded. He came home with his arm in a sling and went back to work...
...Africa, Alexander replaced Auchinleck as commander of the British Middle East Forces when Rommel was battering at the gates of Alexandria. He was at a relief job again. Cool as a cucumber in a gin sling and twice as impersonal, he planned and mounted the great attack which General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery brilliantly executed-and Rommel was rolled all the way back to Tripolitania...