Word: hang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kill the Bastards!" On every rooftop, Pakistan's green-and-white flags hang limply in the steamy stillness. "We all know that Pakistan is finished," said one Bengali, "but we hope the flags will keep the soldiers away." As another form of insurance, portraits of Pakistan's late founder Mohammed Ali Jinnah, and even the current President Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan, were displayed prominently. But there was no mistaking the fact that the East Pakistanis viewed the army's occupation of Dacca as a setback and not a surrender. "We will neither forgive nor forget," said...
Klan Potentate. Typical of the psychoses that sometimes developed after pot use was the paranoia of a 16-year-old girl who thought her older sister's husband was sexually interested in her. She began to attack teachers and friends verbally, dropped out of school and attempted to hang herself. In other cases, a 24-year-old came to believe he was the first member of a new superrace, a 20-year-old thought he was a Ku Klux Klan potentate in charge of the Mafia, and a 17-year-old decided he was the Messiah returned to earth...
Park is not planning on overemphasizing the team's anemic hitting before the weekend games. "If you dwell on a problem it becomes a psychological hang-up. The boys just need to keep swinging because we know the potential is there...
Anyway. Baron and Mary and Blaire got this idea together last spring, this fantasy of a fashion, or maybe call it anti-fashion, magazine that didn't tell you what to wear in big 9 x 14 glossies, but just let a bunch of people hang it all out, let 'em rap about what they and their friends were wearing. The kind of magazine that would go out into the street and bring street people back into your home. Like it no longer mattered what you wore to the wedding feast and so there was this real need...
...object was to get one or more mavericks who would contradict the majority and thereby hang the jury. The stratagem did not work. Last week, after nine months of endless testimony and agonized deliberations, the seven-man, five-woman panel that had convicted Charles Manson, Leslie Van Houten, Susan Atkins and Patricia Krenwinkel also recommended the death penalty for all four. Then Judge Charles Older did something unusual: he commended the jurors for service "above and beyond the call of duty." If it were within his power, he said, he would award each member a medal of honor. Concluded Older...