Word: hangings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...enthusiasm of the audience as they began the additional show, the first of three to come that day. Their confident swaggers and wide grins as they took the stage were a clear signal that they wanted to establish a good rapport with the audience, who were ready to hang on every note. After a congenial introduction, Redman uncapped the mouthpiece of his tenor saxophone, counted off and launched into an animated rendition of "Surrey With The Fringe On Top," a familiar tune from the Rodgers-Hammerstein musical Oklahoma...
...should our outrage be dampened, rather than inflamed, by knowing that these atrocities are common? Well, you cannot focus your rage against an evil that is universal. You deepen your sadness with stories--think back to the Leopold-Loeb case in 1924, for example. Everyone in America wanted to hang those two in Chicago for murdering 14-year-old Bobby Franks as a sort of Nietzschean thrill; Clarence Darrow, with a magnificent speech against the death penalty, got the idiots off with life imprisonment. Nathan Leopold was released in 1958 and lived to the age of 66, strolling upon...
...next 10 years a photograph of Mark S. Collins, convicted of aggravated rape in 1987, will hang on a bulletin board in the lobby of the Cambridge Police Department beneath the words "Sexual Offender Community Notification...
...fallout continues. Once again, dour comments by Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan on the state of the U.S. economy have touched off a world-wide spate of panic selling, reports Money Daily. Southeast Asian markets were the most affected, with Hong Kong's Hang Seng index dropping 4 percent and Japan's Nikkei falling nearly 250 points. The bulls were equally spooked in Europe - Germany's DAX and Britain?s FTSE were sinking slowly early Thursday. All this on the back of Greenspan expounding a very simple economic truism: higher employment means higher wages and higher prices. What on earth...
...declined to give her full name, said she doesn't know where her customers will eat and hang out once the restaurant shuts down...