Word: slung
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...decided to take a discreet picture of the sea. Within thirty seconds of removing my camera from my backpack, I felt a strong hand on my shoulder. It spun me around so that I was face to face with an angry military officer, who had a large gun slung across his shoulder. He promptly confiscated my camera and questioned me as to what possible reason I could have for being in the country and taking pictures. The soldier even suggested at one point that I could be a “terrorist.” After a disastrous hour...
...hours late, sweeping to a halt in front of a sweating crowd of 2,000 in a blacked-out Toyota Land Cruiser flanked by jogging uniformed bodyguards. As Nkunda disembarks, the goons shove and kick reporters and spectators, then stand moon-faced and legs apart around their man, guns slung over their shoulders and pointed down, trigger fingers running along the guard - the pose of elite troops from Fort Bragg to the southern Philippines. Nkunda is a man who manages his appearance carefully, cutting a tall and slightly dandyish figure in combat fatigues, a purple beret and gold-rimmed glasses...
...loved her since I was 10,” said Lynn Gonsalves, a photographer from Hull, Mass., who stood first in line with a camera slung around her neck before the doors opened. “I was always really inspired by everything she did. She’s the reason I’m a photographer...
Policewomen, clad in black chadors, with guns slung over their shoulders: the cover of Transit Tehran - an anthology of writing, art and photography - bears exactly the sort of bristly image you would expect to see of the Iranian capital...
...Felicity (Hollie Zegman) even wipes down the floor with red water resembling blood as the action of the play continues on around her.The high-pitched and babyish voice Medina uses to portray Catherine is reminiscent of a bad horror movie, which only gets worse as Medina—hair slung in front of her face while she lays on the floor—peers out at the audience with striking resemblance to the girl from “The Ring.” Amidst the horror show, Catherine’s mother, Mrs. Holly, enters, played by Michael Handelman...