Word: slingshot
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...once aloft, will enable them to swoop into orbit or go halfway around the world in two hours. Cargo will be shot into orbit by electromagnetic rail guns that ramp up the sides of mountains, or will be flung upward by looping orbital tethers, sort of like David's slingshot...
...will compete in Barcelona will have the luxury of being in a can't-lose position -- expectations for them are so low that any achievement will be a triumph. And perhaps 90% of all the athletes can do no more than remind themselves that David beat Goliath in the Slingshot Event. Even the former Soviet Union is an underdog this time. And though the soccer World Cup offers a little of the same excitement -- when Cameroon met England two years ago, all the small countries of the world were surely backing one of their number against a former imperial power...
...high command retaliated by ringing rebellious monasteries with troops and buzzing them with helicopters. This led to a very Burmese conflict: a slingshot war. Monks pelted the army patrols with stones fired from slingshots. The soldiers asked for permission to shoot back, but their commander refused, ordering them to return fire only with slingshots of their...
...scarce, and so the Karens rely on mines handcrafted from bamboo and fuse-lighted grenades that are no more sophisticated than the ancient British Grenadier devices that gave them the name. Sometimes the Karens launch the grenades by catapult, stretching thick rubber bands between two stakes like a giant slingshot...
Despite the flamboyance of his rhetoric, officials say McGee has committed no crimes because he is not advocating "imminent lawless action." Indeed, the sidearm he packs in a leather holster is a slingshot. But Mayor John Norquist charges that McGee's firebrand behavior is "doing more to scare jobs away from his district" than to help it. "It's one thing to try to attract investment and capital," says Norquist. "It's another to use extortion...