Word: sling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Know me, and you know why man aspired from the cave to Westchester County, from the sling to the mushroom cloud. Know me, and you know that primitive man conceived in images, that his images were ideas; that he ascribed words to these ideas. And now, in this technological century, the word has grown further from the idea, until they have separated, and the word is all. The shattered images lie in a pile, along with utopia and dreams...
...vicinity in a little more than three days. If aimed correctly, it will cross the moon's orbit slightly ahead of the moon, moving comparatively slowly. In this region the moon's gravitational field is dominant. It will pull the probe around the moon and sling it back toward earth in a lopsided figure eight...
Instead of a plain, almond-shaped sack, designers are moving the hemline up, the neckline down, taking in waists, adding pleats, ruffles, tapered skirts, brighter colors all around. And for each new style, there is a new name: side-draped "toga coats" by Jacques Griffe; the slope-shouldered "Sling Drape" by Castillo of Lanvin; the gently indented Egg-Cup Silhouette" by Jacques Heim. Three of the most important "looks" (see cuts) : Pierre Cardin's tapered "Sickle Silhouette," Guy Laroche's bouncy "Flounce Look," Dior Designer Yves Saint-Laurent's loose and swinging "Trapeze Line...
...requested a chance to give the subcommittee his side of the story. He was set down for the chance this week. Not before then could anyone tell whether Bernard Schwartz, after lo, these many months, had performed any public service other than proving that a cocky law professor can sling more half-truths and innuendoes in less time than a skilled politician...
Pitchers, who in the early days had been allowed to sling the ball out of a windmilling windup, were eventually held down to a single rotation of the arm. As the ball was hardened to speed up the game, gloves appeared, and softball finally settled down as a small-scale, frenetic version of America's national game...