Word: hangings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cape Canaveral pad, rocketed off the Florida coast into the starry night and arched serenely over the moon. The Cape's missile watchers held their breath as, in shucking its booster motors, the ICBM blazed like a meteor 200 miles from earth; then it faded and seemed to hang for a long time, suspended, like a star-colored point, just below Orion...
Alongside bustling, burgeoning West Germany (pop. 52 million), the Soviet-rigged German Democratic Republic, with its grey, ruin-strewn cities and 17½ million sullen, shabby subjects, looks a sorry state. It is a poor thing, but Khrushchev's own. He is determined to hang...
...federal union-in which the national governments would continue to exist for many purposes, but an international federal government representing people, not national governments, would handle the big unsolved problem of keeping the peace. The world is not yet ripe for world government, but that is no excuse to hang back. It is the task of this generation to get it as ready as possible...
...record, with capital punishment on trial, it avoids being strident but is only fitfully trenchant. Where it comes off well is as a tragedy of manners-of convicts outraged that a condemned man has not saved his cigarette butts, betting their Sunday bacon on whether the quare fellow will hang, greedily rushing the guard carrying the quare fellow's last dinner, fighting in the quare fellow's grave over his salable last letters. As a large-scale muralist, Behan lacks concentration and power; as a thumbnail etcher, he is at his vividest first-rate...
Come on, come on. Don't go to sleep! If you go to sleep, you know what happens! Stay awake! You can't give up! Not now! Not now! It won't be long! Just hang on, man, keep awake...