Word: slingshot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Freshman captain Cal Loewenstein, whose slingshot passes are similar to Yale quarterback Tex Furse's, impersonated the latter in the freshman version...
Temptation. In Burbank, Calif., William C. Kiele was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon; he was caught in the eighth row of a burlesque theater armed with a slingshot and an evening's supply of metal staples...
...tommy-like target rifle works on the principle of the slingshot. It shoots BB-sized ball-bearing pellets, carefully machined so that they will fly straight. The propellant is a thick rubber band inside the barrel. The gun is cocked by stretching the band taut with a metal piece containing the pellet, which slides inside the barrel. The trigger releases the slide which snaps out the pellet...
Since her return from an eight-week visit to Europe two months ago, Connecticut's Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce has sent many a verbal slingshot at Communist Russia...
...costumes, tunes. But what draws the crowd is Author-Producer-Monologuist Fridolin himself. The grubby get-up expresses one side of Fridolin's appeal-the wistful urchin, the Chaplinesque underdog who fights for causes that can never succeed, and makes love to girls he can never win. The slingshot expresses the other half of his appeal - the impudent nose-thumber who (at Bob Hope speed) lets fly at bingo, dance bands, radio advertising, women in war plants - and the Mackenzie King Government...