Word: slung
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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ARMED TO THE TEETH It could have been a scene from a Bollywood version of The Godfather. I entered the highly recommended vegetarian Sindhi Restaurant near Varanasi's Lalita Cinema to find half a dozen men sitting at the center table, rifles and sawed-off shotguns casually slung across the backs of their chairs. I thought it best not to ask why. None of the other diners, well ensconced in their peeling vinyl booths, appeared perturbed. Nor was I, once my thali, or set meal, arrived. Usually served on a flat metal plate divided into sections, thalis are a traditional...
...workers kept at it, downing thermoses of coffee and sandwiches proffered by Red Cross volunteers. The workers were at once celebrities, flirted with by the young people who flocked downtown to serve food and set up Internet connections, and totally anonymous, their features shrouded by hardhats or baseball caps slung low over their foreheads. We cheered them on, standing on the shoulder of the West Side Highway, waving our flags and our placards of thanks, but we will never truly understand what they...
...reached a stretch of open road and Stith became a little more liberal with her use of the accelerator, I came to look less like a passenger and more like a freakishly large papoose slung across her back. A nod was no longer needed to alert bikers and non-bikers alike that we were on a mission to find my manhood...
...seems odd at first, all this low-slung elegance in the middle of a desert. In fact, it was almost inevitable, as Tony Merchell, an amateur architectural historian who has been deeply involved in the town's historic-preservation movement, told me. Wealthy Eastern and Midwestern business people followed movie stars to Palm Springs in the 1940s and '50s, at just the moment when Modernism was taking hold in California...
...negotiated his way through a minefield of special effects pedals, the sheer variety of guitars he handled bordered on sensory overload. To mix textures while keeping musical flow on “As It Is,” he moved from a guitar strapped to a stand to one slung over his back. He then swapped that for another that was a guitar trying to sound like an electric keyboard ?trying to sound like a space-age piano. Impressive? Yes. Compelling...