Word: slingshots
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...Japan greets his subjects from a balcony of the Imperial Palace in the heart of Tokyo. Even these rare public appearances?on Jan. 2 and April 29, his birthday?have an atmosphere of isolation. Since 1969, when a deranged man fired a metal ball at them with a slingshot, Hirohito and Empress Nagako have been protected by a thick transparent shield. Last week, when four students invaded the palace grounds to protest the Emperor's trip to Europe, they had no idea where to locate him. When they hesitated, palace guards caught up with the four and arrested them...
...raised in Sutton Bridge, a marsh village of flight netters and punt gunners who thrived on wild-fowling. His grandmother, a formidable woman named Leviathan, was famed for her skill at pouncing on nesting pheasants and sweeping up both birds and eggs in her petticoats. After graduating from slingshot to birdshot, Thorpe began poaching in earnest at the age of 13. "I had a stolen gun and stolen cartridges," he recalls, "and the first time I fired it, I got seven hares for eight shots...
...Slingshot Neckline. For dedicated swimmers who do not plunge to the depths, there is still the old tank suit, but Gertrude Ederle would be astounded. Hardly a high-fashion designer has not had his way with it; as a result, the style abounds in a flurry of top-label interpretations, all faithful to the pure lines and practicality of the original, but a far cry away in fit and flair. Geoffrey Beene and Jacques Tiffeau stick to the basic, scoop-necked design, but Donald Brooks makes a slingshot of the neckline of his black ribbed-nylon version; Bill Blass plunges...
...attempted unsuccessfully to break up unruly crowds, and from a hovering helicopter equipped with a loudspeaker ordered them to disperse. With only one known exception, the police kept their firearms bolstered, sometimes throwing rocks themselves when they ran out of tear gas. One cop was even photographed using a slingshot...
Most people familiar with the events believed that the student had used a beebe gun, although it had been powerful enough to put a one-eight-inch hole through the windows. "We have established that it was not a gun." Helmer said. "We believe it was a slingshot." He said later that he was sure it was a slingshot...