Word: hang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Frank Cormier, the senior White House correspondent, and that usually ends the presidential press conference. Or at least it used to. After last week's session, Jimmy Carter did not call it quits but continued to chat for another 15 minutes. It is customary for the President to hang around for a while and exchange small talk with reporters; this time, as the TV cameras continued to roll, Carter's small talk ballooned into something bigger: news...
...party could get twelve to 14 seats. If these projections hold, Peres almost certainly will have to form a unity government of all parties, or at least a coalition with the Likud, whose blunt campaign slogan is to give "not one inch" of the occupied territories, A squabbling, hang-tough government headed by the hawkish Peres would not be a promising participant in any negotiations. Said an Egyptian diplomat: "If their government is a weak coalition, forget about Geneva and peace for this year...
Many of the New Nomads band together, roaming the countryside in loosely organized groups, terrorizing their neighbors as they look for a place to hang their dusty boots. One explanation frequently offered for this phenomenon of peripatetic organizations is that while many of the groups are formed by individuals seeking relief from the insecurities of modern mass culture, others are actually being moved by some unseen bureaucratic force, which has an ulterior motive in stimulating constant movement. See Erik Von Daniken's discussion of this theory in Chariots of the Gods...
Hard Attitudes. Peres, in his election campaign, can scarcely take a more pliable tack on establishing settlements and holding on to territory. The latest survey by Israeli Pollster Hanoch Smith indicates that even if there were true peace with the Arabs, 63% of Israeli voters would want to hang on to the Golan Heights, and 40% would want to keep the West Bank...
...fate of The Thorn Birds will certainly not hang on literary merit. With the broadest strokes and the most perfervid prose, the novel traces three generations of the Cleary family-from poverty in New Zealand to wealth in Australia to triumphs on the London stage and in the Vatican. None of the Clearys, however, is as interesting as Australia itself. McCullough knows how to stage convincing droughts, floods and fires. Even her descriptions of landscapes sometimes flare into life...