Word: slingshots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Best Defense. In Salt Lake City, police confiscated the slingshot of a street sweeper after passers-by reported he was taking potshots at pigeons...
...Your kids broke my window with a slingshot," he said, and struck the schoolmaster. Smarting, Neighbor Fillis vowed vengeance, and knew how to get it. Informing the authorities that he himself had taught two of Nicholas' brothers when they were living in a native quarter, he got the authorities to reopen Nicholas' listing for the Book of Life this year and change it to colored. That meant Nicholas was unlawfully occupying his corrugated iron and brick house in Bertrams. The government hauled him into court...
...South Africa. To be reclassified as colored means that he will have to leave his home, move into a colored neighborhood, lose his vote, his job. No one knows how many other little neighborhood tragedies are likely to follow, some, like that of Fred Nicholas, starting with a slingshot's rock through the window...
...revelations" of Dr. Modesto arrive in a large white envelope stamped "CENTRALISM is FOR YOU," and form the core of this uneven but intriguing first novel by Alan Harrington. The doctrine of "Centralism" and what it does to Hal Hingham gives Author Harrington, a Manhattan public-relations man, a slingshot with which to launch provocative pebbles at the panjandrums of selfhelp, the positive thinkers, the conformists, and the problems of 20th-century "adjustment...
...orchards of the math. His bedroom was adorned with tiger skins and statuettes of nude women. Underground, behind steel doors, the police found an armory in which were stacked scores of bows and arrows, swords, spears, piles of slings and sacks full of stones ready for use as slingshot. Near by was an archery practice range with a wooden target in the shape of a human figure, shot full of holes. Quantities of gold and boxes of jewels, gifts of the sadhu's wealthy admirers, were seized. In an underground dungeon they found eight recently abducted women, including...