Word: hang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...TAIPEI MIGHT HANG ON. To prevent Taipei's expulsion, the U.S. could resort to another parliamentary maneuver; it could make a procedural move calling for separate treatment of the Albanian resolution's two parts, splitting the section that requires the seating of Peking from the section that requires the expulsion of Taipei. The logic behind such a move is simple: a majority of the General Assembly wants to seat Peking, but does not necessarily want to see Taipei thrown...
...Negroes as "them" and to whites as "us." Similarly, Bill Kirk, who was adopted at age three by Ontario Sociologist H. David Kirk and is now 17, reports that "I think like a white man, and when I get out into the world, that is maybe going to hang...
...Endeavour s drinking-water tank developed a leak. Like any suburban homeowner, Scott whipped out a wrench stowed for just such an emergency, tightened a suspect valve and succeeded in stemming the flow. "We had a small flood up here," he said. "All we have to do now is hang up a few towels...
...obstacle, but argued that "because a problem is not completely solved" is no reason to abandon a procedure. Barnard compared a patient doomed to die of heart disease with a man on the scaffold, the noose already around his neck: "Now you say to him, we won't hang you. You can stand 200 yards away and we'll get a man to fire one bullet at you. It's not much of a chance, but it's better than definitely hanging...
...heroine, Diana Balooka, wants everything, wants it now and in generous portions. To be loved by someone who knows his polymorphous pleasures. To be praised by someone who appreciates wit and brains and who is willing to hang in there night after night repeating the whole litany. To be a poet. To tap-dance beautifully. In short, to be a goddess with an indeterminate number of arms dipping ravenously into life's possibilities...