Word: slung
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first place, the 5,000 crack troops combing out the 65 square miles of Cyprus' rugged Troodos Mountains were not quite sure what they were looking for. Intelligence officers had a dog-eared snapshot of a square-shouldered man wearing a beret and with a .45 automatic slung from his Sam Browne belt, and they said it was the likeness of 58-year-old Greek Colonel George Grivas. But was this actually the legendary Dighenis, the man who fought both Nazis and Communists, is now leading the Cypriot revolt against the British? And if so, was he really holed...
...detect the slight bump on a bull's forehead which shows that he may be a carrier. Sometimes X rays are used to look for the "crumpled" vertebrae that carriers sometimes have. Chief obstacle to cleaning the herds of carriers is the cattle fanciers' love of low-slung critters likely to carry the sinister gene...
Curves at 100. Through his intuition and endless inspection, Speed King Ferrari prevails as an individual against mass-production giants. His cars are high-strung, low-slung machines with the delicate balance of a watch and the stamina of a bull rhino. The 3.5-liter Ferrari that won the Mille Miglia is powered with a huge twelve-cylinder engine, the only V12 currently in production, which can push it smoothly along the straightaway at close to 190 m.p.h. The weight of engine and chassis is kept low in relation to the horsepower (about 6 Ibs. per h.p.). Thus the cars...
...with George Humphrey. Shooting well, the President bagged a wild turkey, regularly came close to the legal limit of twelve quail daily. For the news photographers Hunter Eisenhower was a somewhat unsatisfactory subject. After an initial protest ("That would be silly") he finally agreed to pose with his shotgun slung over his shoulder, but a photographer's request that he pose sighting his gun near Humphrey's mule-drawn hunting wagon met with scandalized refusal: "What? Right over the mules? Let's not be corny...
...record 24,000 buyers who packed Chicago for the two-week winter furniture market, the industry displayed thousands of items, from French provincial tables to $43.50 teakwood rocking stools and $350 sofas slung airily on rubber webbing instead of conventional frames. With a bold paintbrush and imaginative use of new and old materials, e.g., Fiberglas and foam rubber, grained woods and nubby fabrics, the industry had mass-produced a display of modern designs that for the first time outnumbered traditional all down the line. As the market closed, 88% of 50 manufacturers surveyed reported better sales (average increase: 42%) than...