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Word: hanging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...abundantly clear that Sir Anthony still had some waiting ahead of him. Sir Winston rejuggled his government, shaking out seven relative oldsters (averaging 61 years) and bringing in seven young replacements (average age: 41). The changes were convincing evidence that 79-year-old Sir Winston intends to hang on awhile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Two Knights | 11/1/1954 | See Source »

...writes in Greek) tells this nighttime vision in the concluding volumes of his monumental Study of History. While to 20th century psychoanalysts the dream may be a commonplace of troubled souls, it nevertheless sums up Historian Toynbee's ultimate message to Western civilization. The mesage is: hang on, wait and pray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Prophet of Hope & Fear | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

...Brodhead Naval Armory last week, after a round of campaigning for his party's candidates in home-state Illinois, went Adlai Stevenson, titular leader of the Democratic Party. In his Detroit speech were the usual Stevenson quips and quibbles, but also there-and available for Democrats everywhere to hang onto-was a hard and fast line: 1) the Republican Administration, on its record, has permitted the domestic economy to become stagnant and has caused the U.S. to lose prestige abroad, and 2) only a Democratic Congress can make things right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Democratic Argument | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

Chief Toohy suspects an organized gang of perpetrating the Harkness thefts. "They hang around the area, and when our policemen go past, they duck into rooms and swipe stuff," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three Plainclothesmen Will Patrol Harkness Common Area at Night | 10/6/1954 | See Source »

Doghouse. In Dallas, the Times Herald ran an unsigned classified ad: "My husband's $50 Scotties for a lot less. If he answers, hang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 4, 1954 | 10/4/1954 | See Source »

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