Word: hangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boxing champion, who joined the Navy. Before him, 89 other town youths had signed up in the Army or Navy. When Howard Cook went D'Lo ceased being just a stop on Gulf & Ship Island Railroad: proud citizens figured it was the first town in the nation to hang out a 100% service flag...
Holding down one of the odder jobs around the University, Freshman Peter Duble will send his battling ten and elever year old team into its final game today in an attempt to hang up an undefeated season. The battle royal will take place when Duble's club, the Massasoits, meets their arch rivals, the Mohawks, in the season's climax game...
...their contracts are up for renegotiation. The companies' first move: bookkeepers tally up the latest figures, cost accountants wrangle with shop foremen over factory expenses, company bigwigs sweat over hard-to-pin-down items like depreciation, obsolescence, reserves for post-war conversion. Sometimes gimlet-eyed price-board agents hang around to try to make sure no penny is mislaid. This statistical roundup takes days, perhaps months, sometimes actually interferes with war production...
Anglophobe Admiral Françcois Jean Darlan, chief of Vichy's armed forces, made a flying tour of French African bases. Over the Dakar radio he warned the populace that "new dangers hang over...
Early in his studies Soundman Burris-Meyer discovered a few essential don'ts. For example: 1) hymns slow production almost to the stopping point; 2) Deep in the Heart of Texas prompts workers to clap their hands and let production go hang; 3) vocal refrains tend to distract rather than to stimulate; 4) music during the last 20 minutes of the working day is likely to be taken as a signal to pack up and go home. Burris-Meyer did not even attempt to play Strip Polka, for fear of provoking a complete breakdown of production...