Word: hang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...They managed to hang in there against strong opposition," Wynn said...
...reducing the British inflation rate, currently 14.3% a year, by moderately cutting public spending and holding the nation's militant trade unions to a "social contract" under which they are supposed to limit wage increases to 4½% a year. The government's hope is to hang on through the winter. By spring, according to its script, oil from the North Sea will flow in sufficient quantity so that Britain can begin to cut its bills for imported oil, thus reducing its towering trade deficit and slowing the movement of sterling out of the country...
...Mason addressed supporters at the American Legion Post 440 in Newton, urging them to "hang in there." "We have come too far together to give up before we see the votes come in," he said...
Even before its opening in 1962, the management of Lincoln Center was calling it "the finest musical instrument in America." Philharmonic Hall was indeed something to behold-especially the gold mohair seats and the 136 acoustical clouds designed by Leo L. Beranek to hang from the ceiling and reflect the sound. Alas, the $17.7 million hall was something else to hear-strident, cold, weak in bass. In succeeding years, a series of four acoustical repair jobs (total cost: $2.5 million) were made, culminating in the replacement of the entire ceiling in 1969. But to little avail...
Opening the South House grill is "a tremendous risk" and the new grill must be prepared to "hang on long enough to change people's habits," Anthony N. Vance '77, Currier House Committee president, said Thursday...