Word: hanging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senator Russell. It made news with Russell's announcement that if the Democratic platform contained a strong civil rights clause he would "repudiate it," and by Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas' strong endorsement of Kefauver as the only way to "clear out the chiselers and fixers who hang around the Washington hotels...
Using short hooks, uppercuts and flailing overhand punches, Salas waded into the tired champion. All through the late rounds, bleeding from cuts over and under his left eye, Carter tried to hang on. He did, barely. The referee thought Carter's early-round advantage was enough to win, but the two judges voted for little beetle-browed Brawler Salas...
...shone on Des Moines, but Philadelphia wallowed in rain and mud. The weather thus helped hang a big questionmark over the year's first major outdoor Olympic track & field warmups-the Drake and Pennsylvania Relays...
There is Dincher the trumpeter, who thinks he can trade hot licks with Louis Armstrong; Timmy the homosexual dancer; Louella, a kittenish advance-guard poetess who wants to hang out with real cats; an impotent sadist who pushes (sells) junk to schoolchildren, and a sordid slew of others. Diane has a ball (doped-up good time) with all of them, but can't escape her own ritualistic premise: "There's nothing. There's nowhere, everything is empty." She ricochets from man to man in love affairs as monotonous as the click of billiard balls...
...Curtis has done a good job understudying Dick, but he's primarily an attackman; it's taken him a little while to get the hang of playing goalie...