Word: slings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anaesthesia. When she awoke, she knocked off her cast in frenzy, which led to the decision to destroy her. Would other methods of treatment have worked? Continuous sedation is unrealistic because a horse lying too long on its side develops radial paralysis; placing a horse in a sling often impairs circulation and waste elimination and could cause death; finally, putting a horse on a rubber raft in a pool, so that kicking off a cast becomes impossible, is still an experimental technique. At 'week's end Jack Dreyfus, chairman of the board of the New York racing association...
...very sympathetic person - "the type that would take in stray dogs and cats," a sheriffs lieutenant put it. That attribute may have been fatal: Janice was last seen wheeling her bicycle to the Lake Sammamish parking lot, accompanied by a young man with his arm in a sling. After her disappearance, at least four women recalled that they had been approached that day by an affable stranger who called himself Ted and wore a sling on his arm. Ted asked each woman to help him put his sailboat on top of his car; one woman walked with...
From Cunctator's day until this century, the art of postponement had been virtually a monopoly of the military ("Hurry up and wait"), diplomacy and the law. In former times, a British proconsul faced with a native uprising could comfortably ruminate about the situation with Singapore Sling in hand. Blessedly, he had no nattering Telex to order in machine guns and fresh troops. A U.S. general as late as World War II could agree with his enemy counterpart to take a sporting day off, loot the villagers' chickens and wine and go back to battle a day later...
...Fire teams" using crossbows, wrist-rocket sling shots, automatic weapons and homemade grenades would roam the streets of Miami attacking police, knocking out electric transformers, and firebombing stores. According to FBI Informer William Lemmer, those bizarre, bloody plans to disrupt the Republican National Convention last year were hatched by a group of Viet Nam Veterans Against the War. Lemmer says he attended a secret meeting in May 1972 in a Gainesville, Fla., attic, where plans for the disruption were discussed and the plotters demonstrated the use of crossbows, carbines and explosives...
...known as the Gainesville Eight, are charged with conspiring to stage raids on the Miami GOP convention and nearby police stations with sling shots, automatic weapons and fire bombs...