Word: slung
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lord Tennyson, looking for his imaginary land of the "mild-eyed, melancholy Lotos-eaters," might as easily have slung his hammock among the easygoing, soft-spoken people of Cambodia, smallest of French IndoChina's three Associated States (Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos), a kingdom watered by great slow rivers and sheltered by towering mountains...
...starting time, the drivers dashed to the 57 sleek, low-slung racers. Some 175,000 craning fans, who brought tents and bedrolls for their 24-hour vigil, were on hand for the big show. For hour after hour, roaring wide-open on the straightaways, the cars spun around the 8.6-mile oval course, stopping occasionally for fuel or tire changes. Nighttime mist hampered visibility, but the asphalt road, lightly sanded to prevent slipping in wet weather, never became treacherous...
...those who can afford to pay $2,000 to $15,000 for a sleek, low-slung imported sports car-and even for spectators who cannot afford it-road racing is supercharged with excitement. From a mere handful of postwar enthusiasts, the Sports Car Club of America, one of dozens spread over the U.S., has grown to over 2,500 members. Last year nearly 10,000 sports cars* were sold...
...then took the stand for the state and gave his account. The men he nabbed, he said, were shouting "down with the Police," and "What is this, the Gestapo?" He could not, however, identify any of those he had except for Frederick Gooding, Jr. '54, who had a camera slung over his shoulder. He also swore that he did not have a club, nor did any of the officers with...
...dawn last week, an American pilot flew eastward from the dead refinery town of Abadan along the shore of the Persian Gulf. As he skimmed five feet above fields crawling with dark brown insects, the 24 nozzles attached to the tanks slung under the plane's wings sprayed down death. The tanks were filled with Aldrin, a powerful new U.S. insecticide that kills locusts but is harmless to crops and cattle. Other Americans flew on similar missions in Jordan, Iraq and Pakistan, in a Point Four campaign that is costing the U..S. half a million dollars...