Word: hang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This is the sort of retaliation that Connally may not fully understand, but it can have quite an effect on our exports. On the other hand, what do we stand to gain if we hang tough and hold out? If Connally got all the revaluations that he could imagine in his wildest dreams, they would add only $2.2 billion to our net exports...
...Harvard is not bad for the conventional reasons. Nobody ever gets busted here. That's really true. You can leave bricks of dope lying on the floor, you can hang tabs of acid out the window tied together with a bright orange string. You can walk down the street singing a song you made up with the words, 'oh woweee, I sure am stoned tonight,' and you won't even get stopped...
...Minister of Education in the late René Barrientos' government, an angry crowd of teachers demonstrated outside his office. "String up Banzer!" they shouted. Suddenly Banzer appeared in their midst. "I will be waiting near the lamppost to see who is the brave one who is going to hang me," he said. The crowd dispersed...
Palm fronds hang listlessly overhead. A houseboy insolently serves up rum to old colonials. The veranda glares in the kind of heat that rots wood and souls...
...northern Vermont. It was not an easy metamorphosis for "Robert the Writer" when the eternal problems of real sharing appeared. "I was unwilling to let go of what was mine," he writes, "my car, my money, my wife." After considerable agonizing, he managed to lose most of his hang-ups on personal possessions-though he did hang on to his wife. The basic lesson, says Houriet, is summed up in the words of a friend: "No more me, no more...