Word: hangings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...manager of a local sawmill. The remarks by Sheriff Rowles were greeted with hoots. In Jasper, people still wonder about the suicide a few years back of a popular black high school football player who dated a white girl. People ask, though without evidence, Did he really hang himself, or was he lynched? And just two weeks ago, a white youth was beaten up by black teens...
...column on deadline? Am I a raging egomaniac hooked on the adrenaline rush of immediate public approval? I prefer more subtle explanations. How gratifying to discover and nurture a new talent in midlife. I relish the I'd-be-scared-to-do-that praise from weekend rock climbers and hang gliders who view me as a fellow daredevil. But, mostly, it's as fun to get laughs now as it was when I was cracking wise from the back of the room in fifth grade. I get a surge of pleasure each time I score with my New York Times...
...complete a game. It is not that we will lack for players of comparable physical ability again but that physical ability is only a small part of it. For the way the basketball system, ever more predatory, operates these days, players of that ability are not likely to hang around college for more than a year or two at the most, and it is going to be harder than ever to get them to listen to their coaches even while they are. More and more, they will arrive on their own terms, and they will depart on their own terms...
...team's speed, and the fact that Sampson hasn't been able to find a pair of forwards who work well together. Most teams use two strikers and three or four midfielders. The idea is that there are two midfielders whose role is primarily offense, two who hang back to defend, and two wing halves who do both...
...much sex goes on among the other kids in their grade? Says H.: "There are some who do make out; they do hang out on the couch at parties. I think they go as far as kids our age should. They can't go beyond the makeout stage because somebody will find...