Word: slinging
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...superficial slapdash thrill-seeking Capitalistic Spy, but I do not think you can prove it by documenting your name-calling with twisted quotas, misleading interpretations, and out-of-context references. Your eagerness to sling mud seems to belie the sincerity of your criticism...
...three probables to his credit. One day about a year ago, at a test-pilot school bull session, the discussion got around to the maneuverability of the Gloster Meteor. "Zura," a test pilot for the Gloster Aircraft Co., said the plane was good enough to do a "Fin Sling," a cartwheel-like stunt he had been thinking about for a long time...
...opened at Farnborough this fall, he had already managed to do the trick three times and he was ready to demonstrate it to an incredulous public. Flying a Meteor that was loaded to capacity with wingtip fuel tanks and two dozen 90-lb. rockets, Zura successfully performed his Fin Sling...
...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...