Word: hang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hang On to the Trees. Instead of hauling off the timber when clearing a site for a $4.7 million sports complex, Bates College in Lewiston, Me., decided to keep the trees. The 100,000 board feet of lumber will supply building needs for more than five years...
...fired its fallen idol. Kelton Dansler, one of the coach's top linebackers, later tried to find the right words for what had happened. Loyally, he called Woody Hayes a "great man," but then he said of his coach: "He pushed a little too hard and tried to hang on a little too long." That was summing it all up as kindly as possible...
...Edward J. King, acting in the advice of U.S. Atty. Gen--designate Wayne Woodrow "Hang 'Em High" Hayes, withdraws the last of the state troops who had closed the University in February, but raises the state drinking age in the Square 67 as a "stabilizing measure." "The people," he warns University officials, "are still speaking...
...subject is hard to please. The first official portrait of Henry Kissinger, painted by Boston Artist Gardner Cox and commissioned to hang in the State Department, was vetoed: Kissinger did not like it. He was pleased, however, by a second attempt, by Houston Artist J. Anthony Wills. "It's an excellent likeness, swelled head and all," pronounced Kissinger last week. He didn't even mind that Wills had "painted out the scepter." In fact, quipped the former Secretary of State, the unveiling was "one of my most fulfilling moments. Until they do Mount Rushmore." Artist Wills, too, felt...
Johnny Cash: Gone Girl (Columbia). Much the best Johnny Cash album in years, and a necessary reminder that country music doesn't have to be slick to get unsentimental, doesn't have to bluster to hang tough. An album full of sur prises: some topnotch Cash originals; a country cover of the Stones' No Expectations; a little lyrical autobiography; and a 3%-min. Bildungsroman called The Gambler, in which the worldly title character hands down a little useful guidance to the youthful narrator: "Every hand's a winner/ Just like every hand's a loser...