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Word: hangs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Donald H. Fleming, Trumbull Professor of American History, spends his time on the toilet bettering his mind with Teutonic tracts. "If I read anything I read German history books to improve my German. I'm not very good at it," he admitted, "but I'm trying to get better." Hang in there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Toilet Papers | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

...home and who can't tell a thermostat from a fire alarm, would probably snap up Michael Edelhart's first book, College Knowledge. This type of boiled--cabbage adolescent continually strikes out socially, maintains a sparking B-average and struggles desperately to act like everybody else. He even puts "Hang in there, baby" posters on his dorm walls...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: Too Much Knowledge | 10/17/1979 | See Source »

Less than five minutes later, Jakovic upped her goal total 100 per cent when she charged a goalie with a cross from Tricia Welch. Though the B.U. goalie managed to block the attack, she failed to hang onto the ball, which rebounded off Jakovic's chest in the follow-up play for a goal...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: St. Louis Gets Hat Trick As Women Booters Roll; Terriers Bow Wow, 7-2 | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

...quarter of the men did not consider it seriously objectionable to have to date or socialize after hours with a boss of the opposite sex in order to hang on to their jobs, while only 14% of the women felt that way. In all, 65% of the women resented sexual looks, gestures or touching, compared with only 35% of the men. One firm conclusion that can be drawn from the report: as more women rise to supervisory positions, it will become harder to tell who is chasing whom around the desk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Executive Sweet | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

...proud of it." For example, in the 1950s at least one U.P.I. bureau supplied its reporters with three-minute egg timers for longdistance calls. By the time the sand in the tiny hourglass ran out, says Oestreicher, "if you hadn't got the story, you'd hang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: High Wire Act | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

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