Word: slingshotting
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Baugh let his passing arm do the talking for him. Year after year his slingshot passes-bullet "buttonhooks" or pinpointed "floaters"-found their mark on the field and in the National Football League record books. He picked up such nicknames as the "Redskin Rifle," the "Sweetwater Stringbean," and, naturally, "Slingin' Sam." And in the rough & tumble N.F.L., sinewy Sam Baugh, the kid who was once considered too fragile for college football, never once had a serious injury, never broke a bone...
...into the wind and steam at high speed. But even with a stiff breeze whipping across the flight deck, attack bombers and jet fighters often need a large and cumbersome catapult to boost them up to flying speed. And on a hot, calm day, the thrust of this giant slingshot is barely enough to toss them aloft...
Until recently, said the experts, the Air Force has put its faith in slingshot weapons, unwilling to sacrifice the high performance of its aircraft for heavier fire power. The jets caught them napping. With thick skins, fewer moving parts, simple fuel systems and high speed, the new aircraft usually shake off machine-gun fire like a goose hit by dust shot. Finally, report the gunmen, the economy-minded reign of Defense Secretary Louis Johnson stifled all but the most important research in aircraft weapons. At that point the Air Force and Ordnance stacked their chips on rockets...
...From Slingshot . . . French Communists took the Goliath position, registered tolerant amusement at David's slingshot declaration of total psychological war on Communism. They were less amused one evening recently when a surprise Paix et Liberté broadcast came over the state-run radio at 8 p.m., France's peak listening hour. Hundreds of thousands of listeners heard David give French Communist Boss Maurice Thorez one of the roughest dressings-down that he had ever suffered. Paix et Liberté's free time on the air had been arranged by Premier René Pleven...
...Cannon. His slingshot now grown into a big gun, David will pound the Communists daily over the government radio. He has a staff of researchers who cull the Communist press, mail lies and distortions they uncover to every non-Communist editor in France through their bulletin Defend the Truth...