Word: slings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with his back to the wall, Mr. Nixon has once again seen fit to sling a mudball. This time it is aimed at a man who is barely cold in his grave, President Lyndon Johnson. In a memo from J. Fred Buzhardt, it was alleged that LBJ was the slimy creature who initiated the policy of presidential phone taps...
Crunch. The plane was to make a low sweep over the appointed area, then drop a sling for the Nationalist agent to jump into. But as soon as the aircraft made the pass, the Communists opened fire with machine guns, and the plane was forced down. The pilots were shot; Downey and Fecteau were captured. The date...
...Michael, 14, won on the obstacle course (1 min. 19 sec.), while his brother Joe, 19, fell over every hurdle and flopped spectacularly into a mud puddle. "Bobby Shriver could do it backward better than that," needled Eunice Shriver, who was the star of the Slide-for-Life sling-a survival rig of ropes and pulleys set up by the Green Berets...
...helped plan the reform program of the Prague Spring; Journalist Jiří Hochman, an editor of what was once a crusading magazine, Reportér; Party Historian Karel Kaplan; and Chess Player Ludek Pachman, an international grand master. Rudolf Slansky Jr. and Jan Sling, sons of the Communist leaders who were executed as "Titoist traitors" after show trials in 1952, were also arrested and then released...
...raised by his grandmother. "She used to say I'd sneak out and play in the mud when I was little, so she started calling me 'Muddy,' " he told TIME Correspondent Joe Boyce. "The kids added 'Waters.' Tt was a 'sling' [meaning slang] name, and it just stuck...