Word: hangings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...commissioner formally charged with "managing the Mau Mau." Many white settlers proposed still tougher measures. There was talk of evicting the whole Kikuyu tribe (one million strong) from its tribal lands, and white-whiskered Colonel Ewart Grogan, 78, the oldest member of Kenya's Legislative Council, gruffly suggested: "Hang the Mikuyu in batches of 25 in public, and send witnesses of the executions back to the Kikuyu reserves to spread the joyful news...
...Comptroller Shaw, is that the modern corporation is too big to be run by one production-minded man, but should be run by a committee, preferably headed by a "money man," with the emphasis on "safety." Since the great days of expansion are over, argues Shaw, the corporation must hang on to what it has. It is the money man who can best squeeze out the last penny of profit, notably by knowing all the tax angles. Says Shaw: "A new accounting procedure [for taxes] . . . will contribute more to our net earnings than the total profit we'll make...
...down en route to a Miami vacation for a conference "on Korea and other policy problems" (see below). Next day the principal guest was W. Walter Williams, the Seattle mortgage banker who ran the Citizens for Eisenhower-Nixon during the campaign. One topic of discussion: How can the G.O.P. hang on to the interest and enthusiasm of the 2,000,000 members of the Citizens group, many of them independents or nominal Democrats...
...hard shot from about 15 feet out, but Crimson goalie Roger Taylor deflected it to his left out of play. With only two minutes gone in the final quarter, Taylor made a sensational diving save, taking the ball almost off Habersky's toe. But he couldn't hang onto the ball and Mike Lawrence kicked it in while he was still on the ground...
MASSIMO CAMPIGLI, 57, a Florentine whose Byzantine-looking paintings of young girls have toured the world's art capitals, hang in many of its best museums. His round-faced girls sit rolling yarn, fixing necklaces, posing nude; each with a happy expression, a pair of bright sloe eyes and not a care in the world...