Word: slingshot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spear fishing is bubbles of fun. One Sunday he donned a glass mask, grasped a slingshot affair with a two-foot spear as the missile, and paddled about the surface. Where he was swimming, the water was clear and the reefs inhabited by fish such as you see in Nassau through a glass bottom boat. The trick is to shoot the spear when you espy a large game. Unhappily, he mistook his right foot for an unfamiliar species the first time he shot, and he was reluctant to try again...
...Damascus. Raswan had been drawn there by his admiration for magnificent Arabian horses, wanted to learn their history and the secrets of their breeding, found his task greatly simplified when the 8-year-old son of his host accidentally hit him between the eyes with a stone from his slingshot. Worried because he had drawn the blood of his father's guest, little Amir Fuaz childishly made Carl Raswan his blood-brother in a desert ceremony which pledged man and boy to a life-long tie. Amir Fuaz grew up, became leader of the Ruala, respected his pledge even...
...ordered Chargé D'Af- faires William Perry George to cable the full text of Emperor Power of Trinity's appeal. An ingenious young man at whiling away sultry hours in the squat, square U. S. Legation at Addis Ababa, Mr. George has taken up the native slingshot, become an adept performer...
...first business session this week sat 210 Ib. of Fascism. Not merely fat but broad, big-boned and mighty-muscled, Speaker Hermann Goring cut the figure of a squat ogre. But slender and insignificant of mien. Chancellor Franz von Papen was present, carrying ostentatiously under his arm a potent slingshot & pebble: an undated decree dissolving the Reichstag signed by President von Hindenburg...
...elastic cord, he cried "Run!" Down the hill they ran for ten paces or so, stretching the cord tauter. Then-"Go!" At that signal the sailplane was snapped free of its anchorage, sailed out from the brow of the hill like a stone from a boy's slingshot. Headed into the teeth of a 30 m. p. h. wind, Unguentine zoomed up 175 ft. without advancing more than 50 ft. Pilot Eaton landed without delay. His comment: "Plenty tough." Only one other pilot ventured a take-off that day. Jack O'Meara, who has glided up & down thermic...