Word: slinging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Winning is the important thing," said Team Man Russell, as he slouched wearily off the floor. "If a sorcerer told me, Til break your arm and your team will win the championship,' I'd be walking around right now with my arm in a sling...
...choppers buzzed to meet it. They were hovering close when it hit the water with a small splash, three miles away. Shepard had already asked by radio to be taken aboard; so Crook Wielder Cox got a line around the capsule, steadied it and lowered a horsecollar sling to lift Shepard to the chopper.* Safe in the cabin, the first U.S. astronaut exulted: "It's a beautiful day. Boy, what a ride...
...week, two Navy free balloonists, Commander Malcolm Ross and Lieut. Commander Victor Prather Jr., made a record flight (21.5 mi.) off the U.S.S. Antietam in the Gulf of Mexico, were picked up by a helicopter shortly after their gondola landed in the water. Commander Ross rode a horsecollar sling to safety. Commander Prather, a Navy medical officer on his third balloon ascent, fell from the sling as he was rising to ward the hovering chopper. Dragged under by the weight of his pressure suit, he died soon after a frogman hauled him to the surface...
...artisans, Hacilar's people were remarkably advanced. The tools of work were stone chisels and sickles, made of polished deer antlers and fitted with hard flint blades. The tools of war were sling-stones and maces with heads of blue-veined marble. Hacilar's women had their own sort of weapons: Mellaart found obsidian pendants and bracelets made of fossil shells, as well as lumps of red ocher that were presumably ground into a kind of rouge...
Stumping for President, Quadros put aside the undignified platform gimmicks he used in state politics. He combed his hair, tightened his tie, brushed the dandruff off his shoulders, and never once pulled a sandwich from his pocket in mid-harangue. He avoided personal attacks on Lott, refused to sling corruption charges indiscriminately...