Word: strappingly
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...happens to be a modern day soldier, and you break his strap, what are you gonna do? Give his steel pot back to him...Thrust it severely on top of his head, and put him out of his misery. Easy as that. Again, lower him to the ground, give him a heel stomp, and you're finished with him. Thank you, demonstrator. Give the demonstrator a big hand...
...trading center is the town of Peñas Blancas, a huddle of 50 rickety buildings. There a mining-squad leader spreads out his haul before a family boss who may carry a million pesos (about $50,000) in a shoulder-strap bag. The emeralds are hauled back to Bogota, where many are sold to foreign dealers in back rooms of the dim bars and cafes that line 14th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues. Jewels are smuggled out of the country by two international combines that finance the families' buying trips. Some emeralds leave in the pockets...
...last week that he has assigned patrol gunships on a trial basis to trail the ships that trail his ships. The Asheville-class craft being tested have only 3-in. guns, which can scarcely harass the Soviet ships, and they ride so poorly that the U.S. crewmen have to strap themselves to their stations with safety belts. Still, the Navy hopes eventually to equip them with surface missiles that could pose a serious threat to the Soviet trailers...
...strangely believable. Four midwestern kids head for Los Angeles for the conventional reasons-they find nearly instantaneous fame and fortune, but at the price of orgies, perversions, drug addiction and other box-office attractions. Though stunned by a culture they are not ready to understand ("I'd like to strap you on," is repeated in three conversations, each time to the same dumbfounded guy.) somehow things work...
...Tony went out with the teacher's daughter, and the tire blew out in Pierce Lane and he had to call old Mrs. Hirsch and tell her that he was stuck out on the darkest lane in Missouri with her daughter, who just happened to have broken her bra strap at a dance-and it wasn't a lie either, she had, but he caught hell for the rest of the year." The speaker begins to laugh and stares into his beer glass for a moment. "Yeah, Tony was a really good ball-player. But he could never move...