Word: hanging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That cab driver is a valuable piece of property, Mr. Editor, hang on to him like serge to lint...
...therefore shouldn't sound off about being the "foremost champion of human rights," when it's his duty to stand up for the minorities. La Baker's persistent invasions of plush society spots smack of a trite proverb: give her enough rope and she'll hang herself! Sugar Ray's threat to withdraw from the Damon Runyon Memorial Fund (unless the situation is cleared up) is detrimental to his reputation as a champion. Is the fund a project for saving thousands of cancer victims, or a measuring stick for popularity and good fellowship? Come...
...Like a great, improbable pinwheel, the plane revolved through a tight circle (see diagram). Three-quarters of the way around, the pilot cut the power in his starboard engine. Momentum kept the Meteor revolving until it completed a turn and a half. For a brief instant it seemed to hang there, nose down, immobile in the sky. Then it fell away in a normal tailspin which the pilot could correct after only half a turn...
...natives. When he is fired from his government job, he gets another in the town store. He is soon fired again, and when he sneaks back to dip into the till, his ex-boss traps him. In the scuffle, the storekeeper is killed and Johnson is sentenced to hang. Bamu deserts him, of course. But Johnson's last request is granted. Rather than hang, he asks the District Officer to shoot...
Partisans of the movie are free to dismiss this as carping, especially since I am a male reviewing what is undoubtedly a very feminine picture. "The River," a study of adolescent girls written by a sensitive woman novelist, seems to hang together better for those who can identify more closely with the protagonists. I have a feeling that more women than men will consider "The River" a truly great picture...