Word: slingshotting
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...revelations" of Dr. Modesto arrive in a large white envelope stamped "CENTRALISM is FOR YOU," and form the core of this uneven but intriguing first novel by Alan Harrington. The doctrine of "Centralism" and what it does to Hal Hingham gives Author Harrington, a Manhattan public-relations man, a slingshot with which to launch provocative pebbles at the panjandrums of selfhelp, the positive thinkers, the conformists, and the problems of 20th-century "adjustment...
...orchards of the math. His bedroom was adorned with tiger skins and statuettes of nude women. Underground, behind steel doors, the police found an armory in which were stacked scores of bows and arrows, swords, spears, piles of slings and sacks full of stones ready for use as slingshot. Near by was an archery practice range with a wooden target in the shape of a human figure, shot full of holes. Quantities of gold and boxes of jewels, gifts of the sadhu's wealthy admirers, were seized. In an underground dungeon they found eight recently abducted women, including...
...chief reason for the change is not safety. The Navy switched to the "steam slingshot" mainly because it is faster and vastly more powerful. On larger carriers like the Forrestal, four steam catapults will launch as many as 32 interceptors in four minutes...
...Unità: "The responsibility lies with the system in which we live, which transforms the school into a camp of ruthless competition for diplomas." But until school reform got under way L'Europeo had some advice for Italian school kids: "Away with guns and back to the slingshot...
...when the Ketchams were sighing over their own Dennis, aged 4½, and Mrs. Ketcham remarked, "Dennis is a menace." Father Ketcham, who looks like Dennis' cartoon father, had little trouble taking it from there. There was Dennis standing at a police sergeant's elbow, a slingshot sticking out of his pocket, while the sergeant barked into the phone: "That's right. Blond hair. Blue eyes, about 50 lbs. And is his favorite expression 'Try and make me'?" There was Dennis bellowing at his mother, his hand planted on his six-shooter...