Word: sling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about 8:30 there was the first tinkling of glass from the apartment house: a steel ball bearing, fired from a sling shot, hit a window. Police lines gave slowly, and within another half hour, the crowd, chanting "Go! Go Go!", had crept up to within 150 yards of the building. Cook County Police Lieut. Jack Johnson, an ex-marine who was in charge of the police detail, kept muttering: "Why the hell don't the Guard come...
...fund for a student-union building. Armored in long raincoats, volunteer pie stoppers received volleys in their choice of six flavors: huckleberry, cherry, apple, chocolate, lemon meringue and banana cream. Speech Professor Alan Coutts, who is also director of student activities and a veteran of a similar pie sling a year ago, heartily recommended banana cream. "That's pretty nice; I tried it last year." Later, grimacing bravely, Coutts stepped forward and got a 1951 facial of lemon meringue. Day's take for the building fund...
...days before, President Klement Gottwald, speaking to the Communist Party Central Committee, had charged that the party had been riddled with plotters for five years. In addition to Clementis, he named Marie Svermova, onetime second deputy secretary-general of the Czech party, and Otto Sling, former party political secretary for the Brno region...
Said Gottwald: "On the whole, we can say that the Sling conspiracy has been liquidated . . . Czechoslovakia will not be a second Yugoslavia...
Jones pulled back but decided to go in for a second try, hoping to lift the pilot out of his foxhole with a sling. "I was hovering over the pilot with the hoist sling down," Jones reported later, "but he gave me a frantic wave-off, as small arms fire opened up all around us . . . I heard bullets hitting the helicopter and gas fumes began to fill the cockpit ... I think he knew that he was done for and didn't want us to get it too. He just wouldn't take the sling...