Word: hanged
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...from Saville Row, his scotch Chivas Regal, his monogram everpresent. But the manorial estate has given way to a small, though stylish, townhouse in Chelsea; imperial conquests in India to idleness and empty dreams of developments in Brazil; and martial valor to frustrating skirmishes of lust. On every wall hang pictures of distinguished forebears; father against the Germans, grandfather in the Great War, great to the nth degree grandfather at Waterloo. Whereas his ancestors went to heaven fighting for England's glory, Tony heads for hell carrying his cannon in his silk drawers...
...also suffered mortal wounds in a hang-the-cost contest for supremacy be tween Houston's other two papers, the morning Post and the evening Chronicle. After all three papers went to a dime in 1961, only the Press failed to recover lost ground. Its circulation fell to 89,000 - against the Post's 225,000 and the Chronicle's 227,000. Last week both surviving papers were bidding briskly for the Press's abandoned flock with offers of free papers...
...Dissolve to a submerged submarine shooting a torpedo. The H-bomb goes off. Motorcycles race through mud. A biplane crashes into a lake. That famous Tacoma bridge whips in the wind and collapses. The Hindenburg bursts into flame. A ship sinks. A firing squad fires. Bodies hang upside down in Rome. Bruce Conner could be interpreted as a kind of Cotton Mather XXIII. His point seems to be that if you start with a beautiful nude, death and violent destruction soon follow...
...last week the President began to take up some of the slack. In three separate instances he moved with both sureness and speed, and while he inflicted a few bruises in the process, he also managed to leave the impression that he has begun to get the hang of foreign policy...
...Merseyside gangs were the toughest in Liverpool-and in Liverpool in those days, all the gangs were tough. The chaps would hang around street corners showing off their haircuts, and whenever outsiders invaded their turf, they would step right out and start a rumble. Today most of the old belligerence is gone. The gangs have spawned rock 'n' roll quartets like amoebae, and the boys have swapped their bicycle chains for guitars...