Word: slinging
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...picnic cooler full of concoctions freshly invented for the moderate but merry '80s. Here is an upscale-looking bottle of Seagram's Golden Spirits in a flavor called "mandarin vodka"; it tastes like a spritzy cocktail but contains little more alcohol than a beer. How about a Wineberry Sausalito Sling, with a flavor suggestive of ginger ale and bubble gum, or a Calvin Cooler in citrus flavor, with real fruit pulp floating...
...back East," a little overbred and intellectual for a Texan's taste. The other is "out West," big and rough and physical. Massachusetts evokes Calvinism and Brahmins and John Kennedy. Texas is the fenceless dreamland of American individualism, where the native exuberance went to herd cows and sling guns and strike oil. It means Giant, Lyndon Johnson and everything bigger and louder than it ought...
...first it sounds like boot camp. "I'm tough on you because I want you to be tough and take anything I sling at you all year," snaps Instructor Ronald Marr to a group of ten young men and women. Then he softens, but not much: "My goal is to teach you how to learn, so that when you leave this classroom and this program, you can survive on your...
...came to TIME ten months ago. She too was seeking a firsthand look, which helped her in writing this week's major story on Nicaragua under the Sandinistas. "The war did not seem close by or imminent," Smolowe observes, "but there were lots of uniforms and weapons. They sling those Kalashnikovs around rather casually. I saw one young soldier using his to hit a volleyball...
...while Meitner's effort earned him this week's ECAC Player of the Week award and his team the fifth seed in the league tournament, Fusco is now recovering with his left arm in a sling...