Word: hang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Next day, the Budget Director was still undecided. He talked to Congressman John Flynt Jr., dean of Georgia's delegation in the House. "Hang in there!" Flynt implored Lance. Reassuringly, Bert replied: "I didn't come to Washington to resign before I completed my work...
...excels Le Carré in sense of place?particularly when the place is secret service headquarters. The sunless corridors, the peculiar amalgam of research, bureaucratic fatigue and hostility are brilliantly rendered. Power struggles become palpable: Smiley's conversations brim with silences and ambiguities; throwaway lines can hang a man, and one quiet meeting results in a British victory over some brash "cousins" in the CIA. Cruelty abounds, but so does guilt. Smiley believes implicitly in the need for clandestine agents, but he knows that his scholarly gains will soon be absorbed by his dreaded allies?the Americans...
...first appeared?): students--or at least what the Big Codfish claimed were students--would write in with questions like, "If you laid all the cholesterol in the world end to end, how far South would I-95 be backed up?". "Is there any cholesterol in those antlers that hang from the ceiling of the Union?," or "As a freshman with hardening of the arteries, are my chances of getting into law school at all diminished?" Questions like that. And answers that would make both Sir Walter Scott (Personalities on Parade) and Ann Landers quite proud, answers like...
...will hang on the wall when the fish are eaten...
Roxie tricks her husband into providing the lawyer's fee--cash in advance--and Billy shows her how to make herself into a local Patty Hearst. The front page boys hang on every word as the dramatic Flynn moves Roxie like a puppet. He dramatizes the plight of the poor, innocent girl victimized by cruel men, and thrown pregnant into damp country slammer; of course she shot in self-defense as the man threatened to strangle her for refusing to cheat on her beloved husband...