Word: hang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most important piece of equipment for safety is the binding. A skier cannot spend too much money on it; bindings are cheap compared with bones. The bindings must be strong enough to hang on at high speeds but sensitive enough to release the skis the instant a skier takes a bad fall, so he will not break an ankle, or worse...
...Hang-Up. Macom has run afoul of the telephone companies. American Telephone & Telegraph has long contended that no devices can be attached to phones unless A T & T approves and uses its own servicemen to connect them. Usually this involves not only an installation fee but also monthly payments to the local telephone company for use of a "foreign" attachment on its equipment. The phone companies contend that unapproved devices could foul up switching systems, leading to overlapping conversations and perhaps even injuring repairmen...
...Bruins other three games were losses to Saint Lawrence 8-4 and 6-3 and a big ever Boston college 9-4 Harvard just narrowly escaped the claws of the the claws of the Eagles last Wednesday to hang on for a 6-4 victory...
...correct, however, when you say that the hottest issue is likely to be property. The liberals don't care if the conservatives all leave, as long as the liberals can hang on to all the church properties and foundation funds...
Speech is dispensed with in Act Without Words, in which Cronyn mimes the frustrations of a man lost in the desert who is variously tempted by water bottles that elude his grasp and ropes that foil his attempts to hang himself. The character is a kind of vaudeville Sisyphus, and one can thank Beckett for the small favor that the playlet lasts only ten minutes. Not I lasts 15. It is the seemingly final verbal spasm of a woman of 70 (Tandy) who recounts fragments of her life and concludes that even her suffering does not add up to much...