Word: unslung
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...miles from the Tibetan frontier, one of the policemen pointed out several wood and dirt bunkers built into the hillside 500 ft. above them. Suddenly, the thin, cold mountain air crackled with the discharge of rifles, hand grenades and 2-in. mortars. Scrambling from their rearing ponies, the Indians unslung their .303 rifles and returned the fire. But they were hopelessly trapped: the barren terrain lacked trees or boulders to give them cover, and they were being raked by crossfire. Only five Indians escaped. Nine were killed and ten wounded by the Red Chinese troops who had staged the ambush...
...song came drifting out of a littered yard between two tenements. The young man passing in the street stopped for a moment to listen, then turned into the yard and unslung the tape recorder he always carries over one shoulder. The children's voices recorded on that muggy summer afternoon are preserved in an album called New York 19 (Folkways). The man who recorded them is 35-year-old Tony Schwartz, folklorist with a passion for the sounds of his time and place...
...brooding purposefulness, the poorly led Social Democrats then parceled out their ammunition and unslung their weapons to fight Adenauer over the London agreement just as they had so long fought him over EDC-because, they insisted, West Germany's rearmament in the camp of the West would kill the last hope of German unification. Just before the Socialists' offensive jumped off, Russia's Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov dropped down on East Berlin's airport and produced from his briefcase a diplomatic time bomb designed to derail the London agreement...
...arrest the culprit quickly became a target for a volley of empty bottles and oranges. "It's all in fun," screamed the charcoal makers, "don't arrest our brother." At the height of the uproar another soldier, who had just put down a marijuana cigarette, calmly unslung his Mauser, fired point-blank at the yelling fans. An aficionado dropped with a bullet behind...