Word: hanging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...says he, "I began to get itchy feet." Dowling's itch coincided with a TIME decision to open a Southeast Asia bureau, and he was hired for that assignment. Setting up a news bureau out there, says Dowling, "was just a matter of finding a place to hang your hat. I picked Singapore principally because the cable facilities were good." As it turned out, Singapore was literally not much more than a place to hang the Dowling hat. "I averaged only about two weeks out of every ten in Singapore. My news beat was four countries, three of which...
Revolution to Come. "Is Churchill imperialistic?" a reporter asked. Said Nye: "Churchill has nothing at all left but the desire to hang on." What about Russia? "They have failed to produce a happy society," said Nye. "What did they achieve? They have become as much gadget monkeys as the Americans." And what did he think of Egypt's revolution? "There's no revolution," said he firmly. "What happened was a coup d'état with a revolutionary façade. The revolution has still to come...
...relentless. He arrives at Tempo 3 in mufti at 8 a.m. and sets to work at top speed. The telephone rings often, but conversations are brief. "Yes," he'll snap. "Send that guy over, but I won't sign on the dotted line." He starts to hang up, then, "No, no. You hear me? No!" and the conversation is suddenly ended. Subordinates come and go in streams. Carbons of every letter are read critically by Rickover and generally scrawled with comments...
Lycovrissi soon has its own troubles. The town is ruled by a Turkish governor called the Agha, and the Agha is ruled by pleasure, good food, good drink, his waterpipe, and above all, his young boy paramour. When the boy is found murdered, the Agha threatens to hang every Greek in the village. The town trembles, tries to pin the crime on the Judas actor...
...most gruesome studies of race relations ever written, precisely because its cast is composed almost entirely of colored people. Many novelists have stirred the human conscience with polemics in black & white, but Mittelholzer is among the first to explore the terrible underworld of shades where life and destiny hang upon a hair...