Word: slung
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...place once so feared, Ellis Island has a surprisingly welcoming air today, though most of its 35 buildings have badly deteriorated from decades of neglect and vandalism. It would take an estimated $150 million to save them all. "It sure looked better then," admits Sophie. The low-slung main building of warm red brick with limestone trim has large paned windows to let in air and light. Trees and lawns sweep to the gently lapping waters of the harbor. But at the time, immigrants like Sophie did not notice such things. They simply felt lost, especially in the great registry...
...King III, 46, burst in as the congregation was singing More About Jesus. King was wearing Army fatigues, a flak jacket and helmet, and carrying an arsenal: an AR-15 rifle with a bayonet, an M-1 rifle, a pearl-handled .22-cal. pistol and a .38-cal. pistol. Slung over his shoulder was a pack stuffed with 250 rounds of ammunition...
...chrome. More than two dozen of them were on display last month in St. Louis at the Third International Electric Vehicle Exposition and Conference. One of the new cars-made under U.S. Department of Energy auspices by General Electric, Chrysler and Globe-Union, a major battery manufacturer-was low slung and wedgelike, with the sexy space-age acronymic designation ETV-1 (for electric test vehicle). The car has lightweight alloy wheels and plastic windows, and runs on modified lead-acid batteries. It is, however, slow as molasses: 0 to 30 m.p.h. in 8.8 sec., 25 to 55 in an interminable...
Marty hummed "Folsom Prison Blues." He toyed with the lights and switches and slung a thumb-size wad into his mouth. "I love doin' this the most," he said, firmly yanking the wheel toward his gut. The jet bucked to a 60-degree angle, pressing me into my seat. "Thirty degrees more and we'll be a rocket-ship, boy," he said, spittle running down through his grin and back across his bulbous cheek...
...original residents remain, tending the livestock and carrying on the war against the Ethiopians and their Cuban and Soviet allies. "This is a town of warriors," said a grim-faced herdsman who, like almost every other man in town, had an AK-47 assault rifle slung over his shoulder. "If I had the power, I would wipe the Ethiopians off the face of the earth...