Word: hanged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...discovered to have AIDS. He marvels that he is still alive while more than 50 of his acquaintances have succumbed to the disease. Although he tires too easily to hold a job, he is able to work with an AIDS support group, trying to "give hope to people to hang on." His survival, he says, is due to "my determination. I refuse to give...
...Hartje, and I made a couple of plays I won't forget. Within a 30-second span, I blocked two of his shots. I never knew what it was like to look down the barrel of a loaded gun until then. Each one of the blocked shots had terrific hang-time. After hitting off my stick, the ball went 30 feet over the fence...
Last week the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington ruled that the amendment was unconstitutional since it was aimed only at Murdoch. But the ruling came too late for Murdoch to hang on to the Post. Real Estate Tycoon Peter Kalikow bought the paper last month for $37 million...
...general did far more than simply hang on last week. In a show of force, his troops manhandled selected opposition leaders and foreign journalists. Within days, a Washington-backed general strike began to crumble, easing the pressure on Noriega to leave and making it clear to all that he remained in charge. Conceded Elliott Abrams, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter- American Affairs and chief architect of the White House campaign to oust Noriega: "I guessed wrong. I thought he'd be gone...
...center. On windless days, the skyline is smothered in smog, and a blue haze of pollution drifts upward into the Andes. Medellin-born Fernando Botero, probably Latin America's most renowned contemporary artist, captures the city's self-assuredness in his exaggerated canvases of local life, several of which hang in the Medellin museum. The pinched mouths and tiny noses of Botero's overfed men and women suggest the provincial smugness of an entrepreneurial society that honors the self-made...