Word: hange
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dukakis could have vented anger at the premise of the question or passionately explained his own feelings of outrage when his father was badly mugged. Such a response would have been a perfect way to introduce his view that the legal system is designed to temper human impulses for hang-him-high vengeance. But even as his political dreams hung in the balance, Dukakis mustered all the emotion of a time-and- temperature recording. He managed to turn a question about his wife being brutalized and murdered into a discourse on the need for a hemispheric summit on drugs...
Meanwhile, a few wealthy students pay to hang out by day and imbibe by night in some of Harvard Square's finest real estate: the final clubs, among the last bastions of old Harvard's ugly side...
...more serious in the rehearsal rooms of the 51 quartets that are vying for the international championship. Singers pace, vocalizing bits and pieces of their lyrics, all the while sipping glass after glass of water to lubricate their cords. Among such polished foursomes, the margin of victory will hang on fine points: how well a group conveys the mood and emotion of a song and how precisely its singers blend their four notes to produce a fifth, wholly new harmonic. That high, ringing fifth tone -- the overtone, or "bird" -- is the grail that every barbershop quartet strives...
...Soviet women, unlike the men, faced stiff competition from outside their own squad. The flamboyant Rumanians, determined to hang on to the team title that they had unexpectedly wrested from the Soviets at the 1987 world championships, battled valiantly. But Aurelia Dobre, who had been counted on to shine, was still recuperating from recent knee surgery and could serve up only 9.9s where 10s were needed. Thus the Soviets triumphed by a solid 1.35 points. In the battle for bronze, the U.S. lost out to the East Germans by just 0.3 of a point, felled by a controversial technical...
...Essentially we agreed I'd hang out until January," Rice says. "[And in January] it'll definitely be up to me to contact...