Word: hanged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...corner Wolter now came across a weary acquisition, a globe manufactured in 1882 by something called the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. The big sphere had turned the color of the ducks that hang in the windows of Chinese markets everywhere, and had cracked. "I wouldn't play with it," said Wolter. "There's probably something living in there. We'll have to restore...
...Taniguchi wrote to his wife. From Keiichi Matsumoto, there were three words for his two-year-old son: "Tetsuya, become respectable." Former JAL Employee Mariko Shirai, 26, could only scribble: "Scared, scared, scared, help, feel sick, don't want to die." Kazuo Yoshimura offered his wife the simple encouragement "Hang in there." And from Hirotsugu Kawaguchi, there was a 17-sentence letter to his three children that was alternately wistful, sad, instructive and finally philosophical: "I'm grateful for the truly happy life I have had until now." As people around the world read newspaper accounts of these brave notes...
...visits. One thing leads to another, and soon, Clark Griswald finds himself being chased by the entire country of Germany for starting a riot. As we find out from a St. Pauli girl whom young Rusty Griswald is molesting, the ringing bells signify that the town plans to hang Chevy...
...students in each class. I never did any of the fun things, or had any of the wild times that you may be reading about in other essays in this issue. Why was I working so hard? Why didn't I go to parties or just hang out? Why would I tell my friends Friday night after Friday night that I had to study? Why did I tell one of the most beautiful women in my class that I couldn't go see the movie Superman with her because I had to study (probably for the test next month...
...Delta Force is a collection of modern heroes, like the lonely range riders who galloped from town to town to protect the innocent and punish the guilty. For the Delta Force, the modernday righteous sheriff, the hang-em-high brand of frontier justice means criminals can't escape through the maze of over-bureaucratized courts or tangled international relations. Their kind of justice also means that weeping families get a taste of revenge...