Word: sling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Stuart David Engstrand, 50, best-selling novelist who probed dark psychological themes (The Sling and the Arrow, the story of a marriage ruined by the husband's homosexuality; Beyond the Forest, a tale of a vengeful wife); by drowning, when he walked fully clothed into a lake in Los Angeles' MacArthur Park...
...second pass Koelsch spotted Wilkins. "He dropped the sling and I got into it. The North Koreans had every damn gun they had firing. Frankly, it was so bad I would rather have taken my chances at staying on the ground . . ." When Wilkins was dangling about three feet off the ground, another blast of Communist fire struck the hovering whirlybird and it crashed to the ground. "The chopper's door opened, and I saw Jack Koelsch and George Neal hanging upside down in their belts. 'Are you O.K.?' I yelled at them. 'Never mind that...
...infantryman going through rifle training may have good cause to complain that his left arm is so numb that he cannot move it, three medics at the U.S. Army Hospital at Camp Chaffee, Ark. reported. They saw scores of cases of "rifle-sling palsy," lasting as long as three weeks. The answer: loosen the sling every few minutes...
...committee's first open session, a scowling, puffy-eyed McCarthy, his lame right arm still in a sling, lumbered into the hearing room, followed by his wife Jean. South Dakota's Karl Mundt had just sworn in the day's first witness, a onetime FBI undercover source named Herman Thomas. For twelve minutes, Chairman McCarthy sat mute. Then he ambled...
Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, his coat draped over a greying sling, arose on the floor of the U.S. Senate last week to hasten the moment of decision. On the previous day in the living room of his home, Joe had disclosed his intention to his lawyer. He saw censure as inevitable, and was eager to get it over with. Therefore, he said, he would move to limit debate on his censure...