Word: hangings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...straw-filled dummy used to hang a Negro in effigy was set afire. The demonstrators shrieked and shouted in near hysteria but gave way before National Guardsmen...
...chief executive of a sovereign state; he hobnobbed with political bigwigs; he was, at last, looked up to. Orval Faubus planned to stay in Little Rock. Politics had given him position and respectability; he had nothing to go back to. But how would he hang on? Arkansas has a strong tradition against a third term for a governor. Moreover, his popularity was slipping: he had raised taxes, alienated his liberal followers by granting rate increases to railroads and utilities. He needed new support and he needed it badly. His solution: to win votes in conservative eastern Arkansas by setting himself...
...this way depends partly on what gases it contains, and the radio waves give no such information. Elsmore points out that the moon's gravitation is too feeble to hold comparatively light gases like the oxygen and nitrogen in the earth's atmosphere. Any gas molecules that hang around the moon for long must be much heavier. But the moon may have in addition a temporary atmosphere made of helium and argon given off by radioactivity in the moon's rocks and of other light gases escaping from the moon's interior or contributed...
...rock-hard fairways of the Country Club course at Brookline, Mass. last week, Robbins spent his first seven matches in the U.S. Amateur championships nerving himself up to proper pitch. He sprayed his drives, flubbed his putts. Somehow, he managed to hang on. All around him, as they almost always do in the amateur championships, amateur hot-shots stumbled and fell. Billy Joe Patton, the hard-hitting Carolina lumber dealer was cut down in the second round; last year's runner-up, Charles Kocsis, was bumped in the fifth; Willie Turnesa, winner in 1938 and 1948, lost...
...picture proved to be the long sought masterpiece. Said one of Madrid's Prado Museum officials: "The brush strokes of El Greco are inimitable, unmistakable. I say it, the director says it, the restorers say it. The picture is El Greco." Valued at $100,000, it will now hang once again in the Real Colegio del Corpus Christi...