Word: hanged
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Robert Lewis, 36, a sometime Western Union messenger, liked to hang around the only grocery store in Walnut, Calif, (pop. 929) and bend Co-Owner Leonard Harvey's ear. "I'm proud to say I got nothing against the Negro," Lewis would boast. "Why, I served with them in the Army for eight years, eleven months and 23 days." Grocer Harvey listened sympathetically; after all, he and the rest of Walnut knew that Lewis was the Negro's champion, and had thereby got himself on somebody's hate list...
...that exposing employees to the strain of a perpetual manhunt is bad for morale. There is also the bad publicity to consider. Best advice, then, for the white-collar worker, as well as for his boss down the hall, is: Keep purses in locked drawers, wallets in pockets-and hang onto your hats...
...combination of economic necessity, international tension, and gradual softening of popular opinion has recently lead to positive steps toward cooperation between the two countries. As Mr. Bhalchandra Krishna Desai, secretary to the Indian political leader Ramakrishna Bhaha said, "If both don't hang together, we will each hang separately...
Hilton has all the trappings of the very rich, but they hang indifferently about him. He has four cars, a private plane, a pro football team (San Diego Chargers) and a 61-room mansion in Bel Air, Calif., which, with Hearstian grandeur, he has named Casa Encantada. He lives there alone and, with 19 servants at his call, does nothing for himself; he will not even buy his own clothes. While his hotels like to proclaim their appeal to gourmets, Hilton is indifferent to fancy food, preferring to dine on corned beef hash, tuna-fish casserole and tea served...
...Fingerprint. There had been almost no Negroes in the California town of Beckwith's birth. When, upon moving to Mississippi, he first saw a black man, he asked a relative: "When God made Negroes, did he cover them with mud and hang them on a fence...