Word: slings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...using Alpinists' gear-hook, rope and nylon sling-they reached the top safely, but cracked off a piece of the spire on the way down. The crash brought a policeman. Oxford's long-suffering town fathers found the two guilty of "public mischief," but postponed sentence, "to see what [the students] will do in the way of compensation...
France's own Communists leaped enthusiastically into the ensuing fray, seizing the occasion to sling more mud at Bidault. Accusations, denials and counteraccusations were scattered like shrapnel. After three hours of stormy debate the Assembly voted to form a committee to investigate the whole affair...