Word: hanged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ORIGINAL GOAL was to take a year or two off from my life and travel around the world. No deadlines, no set place to live, no roots, and no 9 to 5 office job waiting for the Danish wagon to come around at 11:15. I would hang with mates in Australia, visit Amazons in South America, teach English to Japanese executives, or be a ski bum in Switzerland. Or all of the above...
...Conner's father was a Convair engineer who dabbled in commercial fishing -- but by yachting standards Dennis qualified as a foundling. Filthy terms like "boat nigger" seem to come easily to these folks' gooey white lips, and Conner uses that phrase to describe his beginnings. The way "some kids hang around pool halls," Conner says he hung around the marinas begging rides. At 44 he still likes to refer to sailing as a "good way to hang out." A junior membership was finally extended by the San Diego Yacht Club, and the stout and uncoordinated boy with no real love...
...spending his life in the "back ward of a state hospital." So the Greenfelds vacillate over "what to do about Noah." Gallows humor provides occasional refuge. The entry for June 15, 1980, reads in its entirety: "I've spent Father's Day wondering how I could kill Noah and hang the rap on Karl...
HARVARD PROFESSORS long ago discovered that by vibrating their vocal chords at various frequencies they could create air displacements that would smash educationally into the oddly shaped fleshy mounds that hang, often quite humorously, off the sides of students' skulls...
...ignored, forgotten or invented. Reagan, for example, fondly remembers his Illinois childhood as "one of those rare Huck Finn-Tom Sawyer idylls." Wills, reared in the Midwest himself, knows the dark side of Twainiana, and he finds it in Tampico, Ill., one month after the Reagan family's arrival. HANG AND BURN THREE NEGROES read the headlines of the village paper. ROPE BREAKS PRECIPITATING VICTIM INTO BURNING EMBERS OF PYRE. So much for idylls...