Word: hanging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Staff General Hoyt S. Vandenberg of his $50 uniform cap, which he lost at a luncheon in Detroit in August. The general's hat was "unique and unmistakably identifiable and encrusted clear around with silver lightning." The "overzealous souvenir hunter . . . cannot brag about it to friends, nor hang it proudly over the mantel, nor wear it . . ." If the hat is returned, "the general is willing to forgive and forget with no questions asked...
...Nixon excitement almost drowned out Eisenhower's best speech to date on the paramount issue: the Democratic handling of the world crisis with Communism, the crisis on which hang war and peace. As if to answer critics (including Stevenson) who say that Senator Taf t is now in charge of the Republican campaign, Ike picked Taft's home town, Cincinnati, for a speech that Taft could not make...
...another husband might in a rare fling at picture buying; he had no very strong views about painters or styles. What he did know was that he wanted something about two feet high and three feet wide. Said the President: "I know exactly the place where I want to hang...
Joseph Stalin's followers (and sometimes his enemies) hang on his every word as the pronouncement of a major oracle. Last summer Italy's fellow-traveling Socialist Pietro Nenni went to Moscow to pick up his Stalin Peace Prize (worth $25,000), and got one of the rare invitations to talk with the oracle himself. On his return, Nenni glowingly reported that Stalin wants only peace, and that if Russia is allowed to keep what she took after World War II, Stalin will be satisfied...
...fine children. But she never stopped criticizing Texas, never let Texans drag her down to their level. At Giant's end, daughter Luz has rebelled against Texas' Juan-crowism, is sweet on a young fellow who is interested in scientific farming and doesn't give a hang about million-acre ranches. Son Jordan is married to a Mexican girl, aims to become a doctor and work among the poor. In short, says Author Ferber, there's hope for Texas yet, once this generation's crop of oil, cotton and cattle millionaires have had their vulgar...