Word: slung
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most exciting thing about Boeing's spectacular course last week was a brand-new airplane that was rolled out for its preflight tests-a big, sleek, new job painted a rich yellow and chocolate brown, with sharply swept-back wings and four huge jet engines slung underneath...
...opponents fled to asylum in foreign embassies; the Salvadorans had barely put 18 such guests on a departing airliner when twelve more showed up. Arbenz clamped on a state of emergency, drastically censored the press and cables. Secret police in black berets drifted everywhere; cops with rifles slung over their backs patrolled the streets on bicycles. The jails filled up with prisoners...
...truck with a thong around his neck. At last, Uncle van Schalkwyk decided to try his hand at making Joseph talk. "I gave him about four blows on the back and buttocks," Van Schalkwyk said. Joseph still denied stealing. Pieter and Petrus then bound his hands and feet and slung him horizontally between two automobiles. When they cut him down, Joseph fell in a heap...
...remaining $4 a share of back dividends on preferred stock, then start paying dividends on the New Haven's 525,789 shares of common stock. He hopes to boost long-haul passenger traffic by faster trains, is toying with the idea of a low-slung aluminum train something like Spain's 120-m.p.h. Talgo express that could zip from New York to Boston in fewer than three hours. He plans faster, better service for commuters, thinks he can do it without boosting fares. But he is not going to take over Dumaine's private car. He quipped...
...boudoir looks something like Louis XIV converted into a floor lamp. It turns out to be Bob Hope, cast as a sort of tailor's dummy who wishes he were man enough to fill Casanova's britches. And to the lady Hope replies (in a long, low-slung, sports-model voice that slides up to the listener's mental curb and honks suggestively): "I don't need any help...