Word: hangings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sign of mourning over the loss of Greek freedom. Though Nikos Kazantzakis was only four years old at the time, the massacres of 1889 are branded vividly on his mind: "Each morning on my way to school I had to pass near a tree where the Turks used to hang Cretan patriots. The first time I saw a corpse dangling from the tree I was almost sick with fright. He was half nude, his greenish tongue stuck out from an open mouth and he smelled very bad. As I tried to turn away, father took me by the hand...
...singularly unnerving picture based on a peculiar incident that actually happened in the Far East, the moviegoer suddenly feels like a man who has reached for his walking stick and grasped instead the tail of a tiger. He dare not let go, but oh, how he hates to hang...
...West, his attempt has been a failure; and all that he has done in Burma has been to embarrass his hosts to the point of stupefaction. Mr. Khrushchev had better watch out when he gets back to Moscow, for he has spun enough rope on this excursion to hang a dozen men of his girth...
...challenger did not hang around for an answer. Early in the second round Bobo crowded in and Sugar shoved him off. Carelessly, Bobo tapped his gloves together in a meaningless gesture. In that instant the challenger became Sugar Ray Robinson, the champion. His right whipped out and clouted Bobo on the head, bouncing him off balance. His left followed, flush on the face. Bobo went down for good...
...from San Francisco--assuming some unearthly despotic system were in effect this year to detain early leavers, the San Fransciscan could not legally leave South Station by train until 2:30 p.m., Wednesday, December 21st. Accordingly, he would not come rolling in until Christman Eve, barely in time to hang up his stocking, and certainly too late to fill anyone else's. The foolhardy gent who chose to ride the bus could arrive no sooner than noon on Christmas Day assuming that the bus was on time, too late to give and worse, too late to receive, too late...