Word: hanging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There is nothing mysterious about it. It's just that they don't like any of us to hang around or go around smoking...
Next day the pace began to quicken. There were chores to do, decisions to make. For one thing, Mamie had to supervise the unpacking of two vanloads of Eisenhower belongings. There were 25 suitcases and eight plastic garment bags to sort out and hang up-and Mamie discovered that her own closet space was woefully inadequate. Temporarily, she hung her frocks on rolling racks from the downstairs checkrooms. (Bess Truman got around the difficulty by keeping much of her wardrobe on the third floor...
...most of the people denounced were only small fry, but everyone understood that many people must be jailed, and many crimes-real or fake-must be "confessed" to, before evidences of villainy are stacked high enough to form a platform on which to hang Stalin's highest-ranking victims-whoever they turn...
...house combination keeps things going during the intermission, and plays background for Ella. Storyville owner George Wein is good enough to hire himself for the piano spot, and on this sturdy trellis hang brighter bits of musical...
...warming up his audience with a description of a horse, Finney speaks slowly and distinctly, well aware that'many of the older members of the audience may be deaf and that the younger bloods, like as not, have just had four or five Martinis. Often when the bids hang after a quick runup, Finney interrupts the proceedings with a little spice. "Come on, gentlemen," he will say, "you're surely not going to let this fine horse go for only $7,500. Why, this filly is worth twice as much as the bid, just to breed, even...