Word: hangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...length of service, records in combat, decorations, wounds, etc., children or other dependents. Point values had not been announced at week's end. When they are announced, soldiers can figure up their scores. In general, those with top scores will get priority, although the Army is going to hang on to some-points notwithstanding-because of their special skills...
...Montrouge on the capital's outskirts. Below a barred window was the execution ground for those condemned by the Paris purge court. The Marshal glanced at the two beds, the two leather chairs, the table. Then he asked dumbfounded guards for a picture of General de Gaulle to hang on the bare wall...
...against politicians, against women "because they spend their lives making men think that unessential things, like furniture, napkins, sheets and silver plate, are essential," or "the blasted superficiality and bogus pretence of education." There were also the medico from a High land regiment with his Cornish remedy for colds ("Hang a boot over foot of bed, go to bed, drink whiskey till you see two boots, go to sleep"), and the genial host, Jack Barrett, full of his customers' reminiscences : one, asked if he never broke his marriage vows, answered, "I ain't never exactly broke...
...have been caught by chemical analysis of the feces; they usually return to the scene; they frequently blurt their knowledge of the murder to total strangers. In one famous case the urge to self-punishment went so far that the murderer, trying a noose with which he intended to hang a child who had witnessed the murder, fell and hanged himself...
...Carl Esmond) and Mr. Tracy's former sweetheart, who appears only insofar as Miss Hepburn malignantly, funnily parodies her mannerisms, which is appearance enough. On the sidelines the widow's boozy cousin (Keenan Wynn) and a man-chaser vaguely identified as a real-estate agent (Lucille Ball) hang around with little to do but be likable, which they seem to find easy...