Word: slung
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...side stand the faculty of the graduate schools of education who hurl back with equal momentum the innuendoes slung at them by the professors of the liberal arts colleges. The root of the controversy, say the Faculties of the Arts and Sciences, is that the schools of education pay too much attention to the mechanics of education, rather than to what subjects to teach...
...Yugoslavs tried to flee to Paris via the Orient Express. Carrying bread, jugs of water, and pills to stifle coughing, they sealed themselves in the metal battery boxes slung under the cars of the once-famed luxury train, but were caught by frontier guards near Trieste. The government charged that the fugitives were members of a subversive, anti-Tito movement, but in court last week the defendants denied it. Said one, a 21-year-old blonde: she wanted to go to Paris because she was in love with a student who always traveled the battery-box route. Said another...
...maque. In 1939 a diver, wallowing through the mud at the Seine's bottom, reached blindly into a barrel in the sunken hulk and came up with a fistful of gold louis. His employers decided to bring up the brig whole. They slung cables under the wreck and hauled away, but when the slimy mess at last came to the surface, it consisted of only the forward part of the brig. The after part, presumably containing the treasure, still lurked on the bottom. By that time, Hitler's armies were bearing down on France, and the salvage operation...
...economics were shaky but his performance was superb. It ran the gamut-cajoling, coercing, counseling, wheedling, joking, jeering. Enjoying the performance more than anyone was his chief target, Winston Churchill, who sat, fingertips touching with his hands slung between his knees, smiling benignly, occasionally rising to the bait in high good humor. Churchill, roared Bevan, "is not fit for his office." At this point Churchill interrupted to observe smoothly that Bevan was obviously still smarting from Churchill's wartime description of him: "a squalid nuisance...
...wrinkling, yellowing and harmful effects of some laundry bleaches. ¶Chrysler Corp. rolled out a sleek blue, six-passenger experimental sport car, whose hard-top body was made by Italy's Carrazzeria Ghia. Built on a 125-inch wheelbase (v. 145-2-for Chrysler Crown Imperials), the low-slung "K-310" is 18 ft. 4½ in. overall. It has the same basic engine as the Imperial, but horsepower has been stepped up from 180 to 310; the car can do 150 m.p.h. Added feature: a spare tire that can be swung out easily from the trunk compartment...