Word: slung
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...landslides. Deep ravines would suddenly burst upon us like vistas from a plane. Mighty fir trees stood at attention and along the road peasants climbed off their carts to hold their oxen by the horns till we passed. Patrols of Partisan soldiers in grey-green uniforms with submachine guns slung on their backs saluted and shouted "Zdravo!" (Be in good health). We overtook a file of gloomy, bedraggled German, Croat Ustashi and Chetnik prisoners with Partisan guards in front and a Partisan girl, a rifle across her shoulder, singing in the row of guards behind...
Along footworn trails through grassland and jungle hurried the villagers, with feathers in their fuzzy-wuzzy hair, ocher paint on their black bodies, drums and pipes slung across their shoulders. Near the white man's busy base at Finschhafen they converged...
...morning of the 17th day mail came, the first they had seen. That night cautious whispers summoned the men from their battle-torn houses and cellars. They slung their packs and shuffled out. The relief had moved up. In Cassino soldiers went on fighting house to house, room to room...
...young Lord and Coldstream Guards officer, up for the House of Commons against a village cobbler's son whose father had once beaten the young Lord's father for the same seat; a Russian heckler, complete with astrakhan coat; babies to be patted, mud to be slung and dodged, an issue for the nation...
...teach his grandsons how to use tools and make things, gave away money right & left (but advised them not to), and told them, out of the reminiscent wisdom of his 92 years, about General Washington's funeral parade along Broadway, with the General's military boots slung over the saddle of his war horse...