Word: hanged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...painting, but as a judge of men," L.B.J. nonetheless could not resist noting that Shoumatoff's likeness of his political idol was "a portrait I like." Commissioned by the White House Historical Association, it will displace a painting of George Washington in the presidential office, and will hang there, Johnson said reverently, "as long as I am President...
...Peking's freezing cold. Abroad, Chinese students and technicians demonstrated against the Soviet Union in Cambodia, Tunisia, Britain, Yugoslavia, Iraq and North Viet Nam. Typical of the venom that now marks Sino-Soviet relations was the chant of Chinese students outside the Baghdad embassy of the Soviet Union: "Hang the bastard Brezhnev...
Word spreads quickly around the Yard that "cheap" PT's are available in swimming and skating. A student monitor in the IAB admits that many freshmen "hang on the side of the pool for a few minutes" to meet the hour requirement. Several freshman confess to signing in at Watson Rink and then walking out the back door with borrowed skates which do not even...
...that matter, all five of the Democrats on the panel had previously shared McCormack's view that Powell should hang onto his House seat pending investigation. One of them, Michigan's John Conyers Jr., a Negro, voted against an inquiry under any circumstances. The four Republican committeemen had all favored the successful move to have Powell step aside. Though the full House will have the final say on Powell's fate, the committee it will hear from is one that Powell himself might have picked...
...corn, ga is chicken, and farmer is a tongue-twisting nguoi lam ruong). Kiddingly, the agents asked their Vietnamese teachers how to say "I surrender"-and were haughtily ignored by the tough former army men. After 450 hours of study, the volunteers feel they have barely grasped the hang of basic Vietnamese. Yet it is their language capability, plus their specialized knowledge of tropical agriculture, that will distinguish the county agents as the best prepared workers the U.S. has sent to Viet...