Word: hanged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hang In There." To understand the warmth with which Philadelphia greeted its tail-dragging homecomers is to understand the spirit of a city that somehow extracts pleasure from defeat. Just as Yankee fans expect a winner, Phillie fans have learned to expect a loser. The Phillies seldom let them down. No other major league team has lost 100 games a season so many times (13). No other National League club has won the pennant so rarely (twice). No other ball team begins a season with such little promise and ends it in such profound despair...
...grabbed, hauled over the line and savagely beaten. Realizing that things were nearing flash point, West Berlin police slowly forced their own people a half-mile away from the sector border. As they backed off. the West Berliners, in one final retort before they were out of earshot, cried "Hang Ulbricht! Hang Ulbricht...
...delays. A Jerusalem lawyer conceded last week that Hausner had not proved Eichmann was the "main cog'' in exterminating Jews. Too many others were involved, he said, "to pin all the blame on one man." Then he added: "But what does it matter if you hang Eichmann as a big or a little cog, so long as you hang him?" With the death penalty accepted as inevitable (though the 13-year-old state of Israel has never hanged anyone before), some Israelis wonder what should be done with Eichmann's body. A former inmate of a Nazi...
...shares the same jaundiced view of democracy available too soon in a largely illiterate nation. For weeks, Pak and his fellow junta leaders, all soldiers, studied Ayub's techniques and pondered the advice of the new U.S. ambassador in Seoul, Samuel Berger. Berger's practical counsel: Hang on to power if you will, but give the people some timetable for a return of democracy. Pak has done just that. Last week he announced that the reins of government will indeed be handed back to South Korea's civilians -but not for two more years. Even then...
...purse strings, taunts him with his poverty, and one day, just for kicks, sets him adrift in a dinghy on the open sea. Rescued on the verge of sunstroke, Tom puts his vicious little mind to work on a vicious little scheme to get rid of Philip but still hang on to his meal ticket...