Word: hang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...freshman basketball squad, which rolled up 80 points against MIT last Saturday, had trouble getting untracked offensively last night, but managed to hang on for a 50-49 victory over a tough Springfield team...
...spirit too deep to find adequate expression. The college has made up its mind that the string of past defeats shall not be added to while there is anything left that skill and muscle, and, above all, determination can accomplish. The whole machinery of college life pauses today to hang upon the result of this game, and start up with infinitely increased vitality if stimulated to victory. Harvard's defeats have by their very frequency brought in late years a string of humiliation, but they are not inevitable misfortunes decreed by fate. The tide can be turned today, and Harvard...
...fearned English in the streets Papagianis said. "We lived in a section of St Louis called Dogtown It was an ethnic neighborhood, and it was fantasty for sports. The main thing we did in Dogtown was play soccer in the day and hang around the drugstore at night At the guys come by you whistle at the girls and if you can't get a chase going you walk down to the pool hall and play a dime a ball You learn your skills to else you lose a lot of money...
...part TV series on marriage newly filmed, Bergman had his share of deep Nordic thoughts to expound: "A life relationship between a man and a woman has always resulted in their signing a contract entirely to the advantage of the man...because men, damn it, want to hang on to their privileges. The fantastic thing is that women haven't managed to do any more about changing this state of affairs. They're constantly making sure everything continues in the same old way because they want to preserve their martyrdom...
...rightly viewed by most Soviets as small insults. However, more expensive freebies are not out of line: one electronics executive who passed out $300 minicalculators will be long and fondly remembered by the officials deciding his business proposition. And speaking of propositions, the dolled-up girls who hang around Moscow's hard-currency bars should be avoided. It is not necessarily that they are KGB agents under orders to set up Americans in compromising positions (too many U.S. businessmen overestimate their importance by assuming that they are being bugged or followed). But some of the women are industrial spies...