Word: slung
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...chair heretofore reserved for eminent public figures. Last week, just before the retreat in Korea, Lord Hives was paid the kind of compliment he likes even better. The British Commonwealth 29th Brigade went into action with what some experts call the West's best heavy tank, the low-slung, 52-ton Centurion. It is powered by a 635-h.p. Rolls-Royce Meteor engine that Hives helped develop...
Commuting Comfort. Across the bridge barefoot people in tall conical hats come pat-patting with heavy bundles and baskets slung from bamboo poles. They are on their way to work. Each Chinese commuter carries a special pass issued by the French Súreté. One side is printed in French, signed by a French official; the other side is printed in Chinese for the convenience of Tonghing's Communist police...
...lined the streets and intersections, cheered and clapped their hands. Marine veterans, who started out with rifles at high port, eyes scanning the buildings ahead and watching for mines, became a bit flustered at this demonstration of public affection. Soon they brought their rifles down from the ready and slung them over their shoulders...
...customary sense of order and cleanliness deserted them. Of the girls employed in the tea-sorting godowns a Yankee traveler in 1922 complained: "Some of these tea-sorters are as much addicted to maternity as the cigarette-makers of Seville, and not a few carry young bead-eyed Mongolians slung in wide black bands over one hip. These pigtailed little toddlers do not always heighten one's relish for the finished tea, as the big piles of leaves ready for sorting and perfuming are oftentimes their playgrounds, and through and over them they tumble and waddle with infantile disregard...
...started his career in Washington's bureaucracy in a $90-a-month job running an elevator in the Senate office building. When he returned to Capitol Hill last month to play State's David against Goliath Joe McCarthy, many a Senator privately admired the way he had slung back McCarthy's rocks as fast as they came (although State would never forgive him for indiscreetly volunteering that 91 of its employees had been fired for homosexuality...