Word: hang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prison. She had taken more Seconal, plus a second bottle of Dalmane sleeping pills, and was in a critical coma for several days. Prison officials had had reason to suspect a possible suicide pact. Gilmore, who dabbles in poetry as well as drawing, had written Nicole from his cell: "Hang myself? ... I may do that." She had written him that she had practiced suicide by slashing one wrist. "What a wonderful feeling," she said in a letter that officials at the prison read. Extra precautions were taken as a result, and authorities still do not know how the pills were...
...Seats. The Prime Minister, however, will probably be able to hang on for about another year before asking the voters for a mandate, which he is constitutionally required to do before October 1979. Reason: the Labor Party and the minority parties supporting it in Parliament would almost certainly suffer a catastrophic defeat. In three key by-elections last month-all held in traditional Labor strongholds-roughly 16% of voters who had backed Labor candidates in the general election two years ago switched to the opposition Tories, who picked up two of the seats. The government now commands only 316 votes...
Though Roger Horn's design diagonally tries to connect the disparate samples of work, the exhibit does not hang together-indeed some of the pieces look most uncomfortable hanging in the same room...
...what were Mitts' options? He could hang on with the varisty, go to the practices (which he did once a week), play in the J.V. games and then warm the bench on Saturday. Except that at the practices, he would have to play on the "scout" teams and be a bagholder for the first-and second-stringers, a job he terms "depressing. It seems you can get cheerleaders to do that...
...Mitts selected another option--he quit. "Anyone can lose interest," Mitts states, "but I think it takes a strong person to lose interest and then quit. Most people hang on because football has been a big part of their lives for a long time, and it's difficult to break with that...