Word: hanging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grimaced with pain; an old back injury had been aggravated by his bouncing, high-speed ride. He shuffled to a nearby crane, held on to its hook, and called out, "I want to stretch my back." The crane operator hoisted him a foot off the ground, let him hang for a few moments and then lowered him gently to earth. After that, he joined his wife and Lady Campbell to wait for the official word...
...heart of the Communist state), are likely to impel one or another power-grabber to get too grabby. For the time being, however, Khrushchev, Bulganin & Co. seem to be resolved to make their committee work. Theirs is a community of interest in a good thing that they want to hang on to; a scuffle for power that jeopardized their police state might be the end of them all. One thing in their favor is that they have been at it together for 30 years or more: they are used to one another, they have killed and survived together...
...getting an Epstein, a big one, for the square. I'll have a museum there, too. Maybe the miners won't be different because of the beauty, but their kids will." For Manhattan, he is toying with the idea of starting "a salon where any artist could hang his paintings. Young guys can't be seen now. Maybe I'll put my own collection into the salon as a kind of permanent exhibit. Paintings belong to the public...
...Utah one day in 1912, a convicted murderer named J. J. Morris was told he must choose how to die: he could be executed by firing squad, the officers told him, or he could swing by the noose. "Which will cost the State of Utah more?" asked the murderer. "Hanging," came the sepulchral reply. "Hang me," cried J. J. Morris. "I want the best Utah...
...outside investors. And there would almost certainly be a ready demand for the homes from Faculty members. But this alternative would mean giving up the ideal of housing younger men. While at least one phase of the problem would be solved, the instructors and teaching fellows would still hang grumbling on the subway straps...