Word: hangings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last thing we expected to see in New Delhi" -the royal plane was two hours late, but Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, proved well worth the wait. As beaming Prime Minister Nehru looked on at the airport, waves of schoolgirls swept up to the handsome visitor to hang garlands of marigolds about his neck. The prince made a mock stagger under the weight of the flowers. "I feel like a bullock with all these garlands," he shouted, and the crowd roared with laughter. When some children began playfully pelting him with blossoms, he pelted right back. Finally, Prime Minister Nehru...
...these, said onetime West Point Halfback Eisenhower, was retiring Army Football Coach Earl ("Red") Blaik: "I've never known a man in the athletic world who has been a greater inspiration." Another was wartime colleague Winston Churchill: He was "great in the carrying of responsibility . . . You had to hang on tight to your basic conviction because the first thing you knew he would shove you out of it, but when the decision was reached he was absolutely loyal." There were others: General George Marshall, General Omar Bradley and Britain's Royal Air Force Marshal Portal. Said Dwight Eisenhower...
...well is 23-year-old Rookie Baylor handling the ball and himself this season in the National Basketball Association that his fellow pros already regard him with ungrudging admiration. "He has that ability to hang there in mid-air for a few seconds before making up his mind to shoot or pass," says St. Louis' Cliff Hagan. Rival coaches often pay Baylor the compliment of assigning him a taller man, try to block up the middle on his drives. Baylor has quickly adapted himself to the rough tactics of the pros. Says St. Louis Coach Ed Macauley: "When...
...pallid Hamlet is very much in tune with the production--not a hair is out of place. Mr. Neville plays not passion and fury, but sweet, mild melancholy. Hamlet's brilliant sarcasm, which should flash like lightning to relieve his overcharged soul, pales into insignificance; the clouds that hang on the soul of this Hamlet are the merest, most forgettable wisps...
...since Anderson's masterpiece appeared in 1919. Nowadays it is precisely the twisted fruits of humanity-as plucked from the tree of American life by such as Eugene O'Neill, Carson McCullers and Tennessee Williams-that command the commercial market, leaving the rosy, chubby ones to go hang. Indeed. Author Herlihy (a TVeteran and co-author of last season's Broadway near miss, Blue Denim) might seem to have arrived in the twisted-apple orchard a decade too late. But in the seven short stories of this collection, he shows a talent that is not only twisted...