Word: hanging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...must continue to be patient and keep hanging on to this thing, and I think it will pay off in the end. But if we get impatient, we are going to suffer for it. By that I mean we will get either poorer armistice terms, or no armistice at all. The period now is very critical. We must hang on, keep at it, and try to get this thing through...
...embarked on his first few toddling steps, painstakingly worked up to a complete circuit of the living room. After several months, when he had managed 15 times around the room, Valerie would ask him jokingly, "How many laps today?" It was better to laugh about it, they decided, than hang out a wreath...
...Trial?" growled the taxidriver to six burly friends on leaving the building, "they should be tried in a cellar. Hell, they should hang...
...movie companies (available to Sheilah through her column m the New York Daily Mirror) also read the gossipists carefully for unflattering news and views of the West Coast. No one in movies is entirely safe from the heavy-heavy that Parsons, Hopper, Graham and other big-shot commentators hang constantly over Hollywood heads. Through her syndicated column for the North American Newspaper Alliance, Sheilah also tattles to 11 million ordinary readers, who pore over her paragraphs for entertainment, rather than as a tip to business strategy...
...days, the tabloids avidly reported the course of true love. Arriving in London "tired and in a tizzy" Liz was nevertheless ready with a bit of philosophy: "Happiness is a fragile thing and we have so little time for it." For a while it seemed as if happiness could hang on such a fragile thing as poor memory. Liz had forgotten to bring along her divorce papers, but science came to the rescue. Confirmation that she was legally divorced from Conrad ("Nicky") Hilton arrived from California by cable in time for the ten-minute civil ceremony in Westminster...