Word: slings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rose, they scattered for cover when a Marine patrol helicopter appeared in the azure sky. Danger past, they made a small base camp and hid food and water in secret caches. Late in the afternoon they emerged from cover, easily caught at least seven kinds offish in traditional Hawaiian sling nets and cooked them on steaming stones. For a few hours, the old way of Hawaiian life had been re-established on Kahoolawe...
Indefatigable, Peres nowadays begins touring military installations at dawn and frequently works until midnight. Despite his heavy work load, he finds time to write poetry, which he keeps to himself, and has published two books, including David's Sling, an autobiographical account of his role in building Israel's defenses. At home in his small, book-lined apartment in Tel Aviv, where he lives with his wife Sonia and two of his three children, he speaks mainly of literature; his tastes range from Norman Mailer to Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Yukio Mishima...
...prime substantive issues is disturbing both in this campaign and in American politics generally. Yet it remains accurate--as polls of the electorate show--that our present national malaise can be traced in part back to our leaders. Richard M. Nixon showed Americans that it is possible to sling enough mud, in public and in private, to rise from the gutter into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. And the now-pardoned president also consistently set a model of self-interest that encouraged young Americans not to sacrifice their early adulthood to social causes like the Peace Corps but rather to the womb...
...would have thought that by 1976 the Harvard Crimson could have risen above its petty egotism long enough to relax and enjoy itself. But alas, once again, this college daily felt the necessity to sling mud at one of Harvard's most relaxed and enjoyable of traditions, the annual Hasty Pudding Theatrical. The Crimson, typifying the worst kind of elitism, inverse snobbery, dealt an unfair blow to what it felt was the "establishment" at Harvard. In so doing, your "reviewers" lost complete sight of the ideals of the Pudding show, especially since its good-hearted laughter...
...within twelve seconds. Marina Oswald testified that she had heard Oswald practicing the rifle's bolt action outside their Dallas home in 1963. From the Book Depository building, Oswald also had the benefit of resting his gun on a book carton and steadying his grip with an arm sling...