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Wearing grey coveralls, with a .38 pistol slung low on his left hip and a knife strapped to his leg, Mac the Fac arrives at his base strip around 7:30 a.m., gets briefed, then buzzes off in search of the enemy. He flies low, and traveling with him is an unsettling experience. Says an ex-passenger, "When you're riding with him, it sounds like a popcorn machine-there's so much stuff coming...
Three horses converged on a middle-aged white man who was dressed in shirt and tie with his suit jacket slung over his arms. The man ducked and dodged the clubs, seeking a way out. Fear showed in his fce and he looked as if he was about to scream or cry or even bleat. The suit jacket was dropped and forgotten. Still the horses came, battering him. At last he plunged to freedom, and the laughing riders let him flee...
Slot-car racing seems to have been invented in England, but it might have been made to order for the U.S. market. Model builders and tinkerers have almost unlimited scope for fiddling the hours away with a tool kit; automobile buffs can at last possess that low-slung Ferrari or that hot-rod Model A (or both); will-to-winners can frazzle their adrenals with high-test competition, and Walter Mittys can pocketa-pocketa to a screaming finish in the Grand Prix without risk of fracturing their spectacles...
...Committee soon discovered that, despite the bull slung at application interviews, few sophomores had really selected a research topic, that they needed a well-ordered and rigorous introduction to the Social Sciences. Converted several years ago into a full course for credit, sophomore tutorial has evolved into such an introduction, edging each year further away from an intellectual history approach toward a methodology approach...
Neither he nor the Department of National Monuments, however, quite had the nerve to destroy Painter Lenepveu's original ceiling. It remains a few inches above Chagall's ceiling, which is made of polyester gores slung like taut sails within the giant gilt rotunda...