Word: hang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...country in January. The reason for Lisbon's action was the bloody civil war among Angola's three independence parties. Portugal still intends to grant independence to Angola on Nov. 11. But the murderous infighting among the black Angolan factions could compel Lisbon to hang on to its troublesome African colony far longer than it would like...
...like Carpenter Center animator, Mary Beams. She is known for her dancing penis animations but her subject at the North End Mail is an antique film projector. "Works in Progress" is billed as a chance for the public to see some of Boston's "hidden resources." The people who hang out at the North End Mail may not feel that strongly but do regularly quiz Beams on her progress over the hot August days...
...America into a panic--if this can happen, what next? They can't let him give the orders. Everything is out of kilter, the world is topsy-turvy, the granite is crumbling underfoot. They send a telegram to Morgan. He wires back: Give him what he wants and hang...
...offered evidence to support their ideas, then the only thing which could persuade anyone would be emotions--which, in the long run, means the only argument would be force, since no one can back down on feelings. Without some kind of factual support, theories cannot be tested. They only hang there, turning slowly, slowly in the wind, and in the end don't offer much insight into anything...
...wanders over to a wall, where there are a set of photographs of Seminole, the town in Pennsylvania where he was born in 1917, a town he has only recently developed enough affection for to want to hang pictures of it on his wall. It's a dead town, a coal-mining town, and Crooks had nine sisters and brothers and a poor miner for a father. Crooks was the youngest son, and his mother decided he would never go into the mines like his brothers; so she hired a man named Mr. Henry who smelled like vanilla extract...