Word: hang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fallen out of favor with Northern conservatives, it still received support from the South. In the final days of Watergate, when the rest of the nation had been convinced of Nixon's guilt, the President still garnered sympathy and exhortations from Southerners who urged him to "Hang in there...
Those pleasures are quite extraordinary in range. Beyond conventional horse and auto sports, golf, tennis, hang-gliding and rafting down rivers, they include elaborate re-creations of Civil War battles; tractor "pulls," in which contestants vie in hauling 30,000-lb. loads over a 300-ft. course; "plant digs," organized by state forestry commissions and environmentalist groups, in which families are encouraged to rescue trees, shrubs and wild flowers from soon-to-be-bulldozed sites; hunting Indian arrowheads and searching for old bottles (two of Jimmy Carter's favorite decompression pastimes) or turtle eggs...
...Governor George Busbee in his 1975 inaugural address. But Busbee, who succeeded Carter, had reason to know that he was not entirely right: his opponent in the Democratic primary runoff, Lester Maddox, won 40% of the vote, mostly from diehard segregationists, who, though they no longer elect statewide candidates, hang on as an inhibiting political force...
...history of boss rule as a major political structure in many American cities bears this out. In short, provided he can remember the names of the men and women who will vote to keep him in office, the longer a local incumbent can hang onto his office the more likely he is to stay there. And, at the same time, he will also solidify his status as a community fixture...
...mylar, and hang regular wreaths from the strings of bare lightbulbs that were left. Some people said the mylar also interfered with radios in fire trucks and ambulances...