kiteflying

Washington's Park Police, however, recently have grown almost neurotically literalminded about kites ever since an underground newspaper asked for a permit to stage a kiteflying contest.

The Smithsonian Institution was then denied a permit to hold its annual kiteflying carnival on the spacious Mall between the Capitol and Washington Monument.

One sergeant leading a miscreant away was heard to bark: "The charge is kiteflying."

The earth that has been carrying war around the sun has carried as well the work and the relaxations, the moviegoing, horse racing, kiteflying, card-playing, visiting, talking, worshiping life of man.

But there was one sport that he liked as well as his companions; that was kiteflying.