Word: hang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Detroit schools have also found it impossible to hang onto their taxes...
Prosperity is depopulating the countryside. For the first time, more than half the population lives in towns and cities of at least 20,000. Everywhere, olives and citrus fruits hang rotting from branches, waiting for pickers who have left for the cities...
...into The City. Life gradually drags him into total withdrawal: he spends day after day festering alone in bed, drawing into himself, utterly isolated in a concrete cellar room. He reads a lot of books: they depress him, increase his loneliness. He stops reading, and as he struggles to hang on to his sanity he becomes excruciatingly familiar with every individual cement block in the cell. Fighting to keep from fading entirely to within his own head, his lunge at reality turns to memorizing each idiosyncrasy on the surface of the four walls. He begins, then, to attach string...
...fans, almost all of whom were rooting for the underdog Huskies. The game began to feel like last Monday's opening round game when Northeastern rallied in the third against B.C. Fortunately, however, they were only able to come with three goals and Harvard was able to hang in there...
...loser was to exhibit his masculinity, to expose himself. Rentzel strives to be honest here, but his analysis is suspiciously similar to that of his psychiatrist, Dr. Louis J. West, who writes an epilogue briefly describing Rentzel's problems. One has the feeling that Rentzel examined his hang-ups to show West that, indeed, his psychotherapy has been successful...