Word: hang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Columbia players were not about to hang listlessly in the second half, though. Fifteen minutes into the period, the Lions started to get hungry on offense. Sock broke loose from Bowyer and apparently had Crimson goalkeeper Herold at his mercy from close range when sweeper George Grassby bowled Sock over in an attempted tackle...
Working against the President is the fact that he pardoned Richard Nixon, an act that, according to the Yankelovich summary, "continues to hang like a cloud over him." He is faulted for this by 51% of the respondents. Another 51% feel he cannot deal with Congress, while 44% say he is too soft on the Russians-a rebuke to the policy of détente and of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. For 39% of the voters, Ford is too close to business-a standard complaint about Republican candidates; 36% believe he is a weak President; and 32% think...
...Shaka's successors could not hang onto it. First the Boers, then the British, gained control of Zulu territories. In 1879, after numerous disputes, the British army invaded Zululand. The Zulus fought back ferociously, and at the Battle of Isandhlwana some 10,000 Zulus wiped out 1,300 British and native soldiers in hand-to-hand fighting. The British, however, had the Gatling gun. They sacked the Zulu capital of Ulundi and divided the fallen empire into 13 quarreling kingdoms...
THESE BITS and pieces carry the film. As in a dream, even the distorted lapses in time, the changes from black and white to color and the rain falling strangely inside as well as out add to the effect. Still, some loose ends to hang unevenly. What, for example, after her first few appearances, happens to the girl in the blue nightgown? How does Kelvin, who starts out sleeping in his space suit, suddenly take possession of a pair of monogrammed pajamas? Some of these points may be straightened out in an extra 40 minute section cut out of this...
...that it will not tolerate a return to the grim old days of border terrorism. If the good fence policy does not keep terrorists from the area, Israel may well launch heavy retaliatory raids of its own across the border. It seems clear that the Israelis are determined to hang on to their one tangible gain so far from the Lebanese civil war-a peaceful northern border...