Word: hanging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...joke, critics say, is not only on New York but on the artists whose pictures hang inside what Robert Moses once called "an inverted oatmeal dish." The museum's function, they maintain, has been defeated by the overpowering design; Wright's blindness to all other arts except architecture caused him deliberately to subordinate the hangings to the walls...
Without Guilt. When punishment is necessary to enforce an order, the most desirable kind, said Dr. Kenward, is to turn the misbehavior itself into a weapon. A girl who likes neat clothes but refuses to hang them up will eventually get tired of wearing wrinkled dresses. If a child steals, he must make restitution. Next obvious stage in punishment is depriving the child of privileges...
...During 30 years as a newspaperman," said Reporter Don Whitehead, "home had been wherever I happened to hang my hat." In World War II he hung his hat in hundreds of huts and tents, covered the front wherever war burned hottest: in Africa, Sicily, Italy, Belgium, France and Germany. He hung it in Korea in 1950, won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage, won another in 1953 for his stories on President-elect Eisenhower's trip to the Korean front. His byline, as a top Associated Press reporter, was for years among the most widely known...
...President. And if Kennedy and Brown cut each other up too much in the preconvention campaigning, then the call might go to still another Catholic-say Steve McNichols. Indeed, so well defined has the Brown-McNichols rivalry become that McNichols backers have a favorite song: "Oh, we'll hang Pat Brown to a sour apple tree...
...late president, boasted to Adman Bruce Barton that a certain new-model Chevy was "almost the perfect low-priced car-and it will really become perfect next year when we make one small change." Barton bit hard. "What change?" Deadpanned Bill Knudsen: "We're just going to hang a small hammock under the chassis. Catch all the goddam parts that fall...