Word: hangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Archbishop Joseph Mindszenthy left behind him in Budapest mobs (probably Communist-led) which had demonstrated against him with placards reading: "Mindszenthy wants a kingdom. Hang him on a tree." The Archbishop, said Hungarian Minister of Justice Stefen Riesz, "will not be arrested, as the government refuses to make a martyr of him, as he strongly desires...
...which handles the sale of foreign surplus) had tried to sell goods for dollar credits. But most European nations wanted to hang onto what few dollars they had, to buy essential goods from...
...Yale men. Today it calls itself the oldest college in the Northwest,* and boasts of a top drawer anthropology department, with a $200,000 museum of its own (Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews is a Beloit graduate). One of Beloit's attractions for its students is its ability to hang on to some of the freshwater college atmosphere so dear to the scenarists who wrote Jack Oakie campus movies in the early...
President Truman gave UNO delegates in London something to chew on. The U.S., he said, is going to hang onto the islands it needs in the Pacific...
...Down-under" Australians are hypersensitive to any suggestion of uppishness from those who live at the top of the world, especially "Pommies" (the English). The defensive truculence carries over to domestic affairs. With fierce local pride and last-ditch tenacity they hang on to whatever they have won from others-be it battle positions, jobs, or their underpopulated country which they keep that way by restrictive immigration laws. Australian labor disputes, in particular, have long been notable for the stubbornness of the participants and the pettiness of the issues. Most Australian unions will strike for two pins, but would rather...