Word: slingshot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Frederick Altamount Cornwallis Twistleton, fifth Earl of Ickenham, who shoots off the top hat of a London barrister by means of a slingshot loaded with a Brazil nut-thus confirming his title as "England's answer to Annie Oakley...
...Barrister Sir Raymond Bastable, owner of the hat and an "overbearing dishpot," who assumes that the David behind the slingshot is a youthful delinquent, and is inspired to write (anonymously) a bitter exposure of British youth in the form of a novel named Cocktail Time...
...Palace. Training his slingshot on the Democratic machine, Wonderboy Sagan at 26 helped elect Independent State Representative Abner Mikva, who was voted "outstanding freshman" of 1957 by the Illinois legislature. Taking on the Chicago Theological Seminary, the Herald last year leaped into the fight that saved Architect Frank Lloyd Wright's famed Robie House from demolition to make way for a dormitory. As circulation hit 8,500-350% more than the old Herald-Publisher Sagan was able to say: "The paper is worth ten times what we paid...
...Texas statute which stipulates that firearms may be sold only to buyers who have 1) a "certificate of good character" from a judge, and 2) no prison record. Another antiquated law unearthed by John Davis provides a $100 minimum fine for anyone who carries a "pistol, dirk, dagger, slingshot, handchain, night stick, sword cane, spear or bowie knife...
...none has reigned longer or more despotically than the Los Angeles Examiner's asp-tongued James H. (for Hugh) Richardson. In a 20-year running feud with slow-moving staffers and half the officialdom of Los Angeles, one-eyed Jimmy Richardson (he lost his right eye in a slingshot accident at the age of seven) has driven a long parade of newsmen to pressagentry. the bottle-or to fame. He also bullied and blarneyed his way to more newsbeats than any other Hearst city editor, made the Examiner (circ. 350,739) Los Angeles' most readable daily...