Word: hung
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...previous clashes with Meredith, Willcox had hung back and attempted the arduous assignment of beating his rival with a driving finish. In this race he elected to go out from the gun and it was this fact which made the record a possibility. Meredith was at the Harvard man's shoulder as they whisked past the furlong post in 21 4-5 and the Penn runner forged ahead entering the homestretch. Willcox was so spent by his early efforts that he finished fourth...
...knew that but a three days' supply of bread was actually on hand in London. Though more bread could and would be brought, the knowledge that a three-day leeway was all the city possessed in the event of an embattled siege, hung like a sword over responsible heads in every quarter of the struggle...
...What fashionable painter's portrait of Andrew Mellon was hung last week...
...pressmen walk out on strike rather than send the editorial on its way. Thus the Daily Mail, "largest newspaper in the British Empire," failed to appear. The Times declared: "Unless counsels of reason prevail we are within a few hours of the most grave domestic menace which has hung over this nation since the fall of the Stuarts...
...Point Barrow, which he had just reached by forced marches. Wilkins and Eielson were?the signals were very faint?were there, safe, in a fur-trader's comfortable cabin. They had reached Point Barrow the day of their last departure from Fairbanks, after a hairbreadth escape in the cloud-hung Endicott Mountains. Heavy-laden, the monoplane Alaskan had not been able to soar over the 10,000-foot peaks this time. Wilkins, his right arm fractured, had sat grimly by in the cockpit while Eielson felt his way between peaks at 9,000 feet. Once, a mountainside had rushed...