Word: hangings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heard Maloney. McLaughlin and Langley plotting to have Teamsters' Oregon Representative Clyde Crosby go to Republican Mayor Fred Peterson to urge the ouster of a police chief who had refused to cooperate. Said Elkins: "They were trying to figure a way or something that the mayor could hang his hat on to remove the chief of police. It didn't occur to them that [the mayor] might be honest, or not go along with them...
Sometimes, as Franky Machine would say, some cats just hang that way; but for the local citizens it was purely old Sorrowville...
...London penthouse at Claridge's, a chateau on the French Riviera, a lush Bermuda beach residence and a 190-ft. yacht, the Creole, biggest privately owned sailing vessel in the world, Niarchos has acres of wall space, always a challenge to the ardent collector. He plans to hang some of the newly acquired paintings in the Manhattan penthouse, others in the Paris house...
...Rulon-Miller is a particularly fast skater, one of the varsity's defensemen will probably be forced to hang back somewhat to cover him. In its last few games, a good deal of the goals scored on Crimson captain and goalie Jim Bailey have been on solo rushes which have caught his defense unawares...
...resistance movement against dictatorship and corruption, are supporting Castro. "An internal struggle is now taking place that is more than an effort by the outs to get in." hang on until his term ends in February...