Word: slung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tried to cork up, is no single bombable pathway like the Burma Road. Instead, machinery, materiel and munitions are landed from junks or freighters on beaches at minor ports anywhere along the coast in small shipments, proceed inland through the countryside by a kind of osmosis, in carts or slung on bamboo poles between two coolies. Not until they are well away from the coast are supplies concentrated along the Hengyang (southern Hunan) Railroad that takes them upcountry...
...track, unconscious, just as a train roared into the station. A woman screamed. The motorman threw on the brakes, but he knew he could not stop in time. Two men waiting for the train jumped down on the track, grabbed the unconscious man by his shoulders and feet and slung him under the shallow overhang of the platform. They crouched there with him, while three cars of the train ground past...
...thin lines through the naked valleys and over the bare bundocks of the Quantico reservation. Instructors and recruits alike wore the drab, unmilitary-looking coverall working outfit, but the boots had already learned to tilt their campaign hats slightly askew over the right eye. Most of them carried Springfields slung over their shoulders. A few also dragged two-wheeled machine guns and ammunition carts that Marines call "Cole-carts' (after their inventor, Major General Eli Kelley Cole). In every man's mind was a still, small thought implanted by the leather-faced sergeants: work, not magic, makes...
...tangle of telephone cables, power lines, water mains, gas pipes, pneumatic mail tubes, sewer pipes, steam mains, telegraph wires, police and fire alarm lines, conduits for refrigerator brine, burglar alarm wires, quotation ticker lines, traffic signal wires. Without suspending these services, the pipes and wires had to be slung from the flooring or rerouted on the surface. Where the cut & cover method was not adaptable, direct tunneling had to be done-sometimes with compressed air and a shield under sandhog conditions. Among other discomfitures: cold (subways take several years to warm...
...Amiable Host Trotsky invited him into the house. They entered, Jackson in the lead, carrying a topcoat over his arm. In the dining room Natalie Sedova Trotsky met them, and, Russian-fashion, offered the guest a glass of tea. Jackson asked for water, drank it without disturbing the topcoat slung over his left arm. Then Trotsky and Jackson passed into the study. Jackson did not put down the topcoat...