fling down

I fling down a twenty and grab Ben’s hand.

“Every day is a summer fling down here, and it’s not as great as that sounds,” the 34-year-old writer and PR professional says.

I lean my rifle in a corner, I set my pack against the wall, place my helmet on it and fling down my equipment and baggage.

Others simply sit on the roadways, fighting crowds as volunteers on large relief trucks fling down bags of rice or bottles of water.

Here, in the greyness and stillness, the importance of the step I was about to take, the madness of the challenge I was about to fling down, in the teeth of my brethren, rose before me; and if my mind had not been braced to the utmost by resentment and obstinacy, I must have turned back.