Word: hung
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...score on bye-elections held since the resignation of Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden two months ago now stands: two for the Opposition, one for the Government. The Opposition victories were hung up in West Fulham, outside London, and in Lichfield, onetime home of famed, blustering Dr. Samuel Johnson. In these contests, although Laborites and Liberals have rejected the idea of a "Popular Front" to oppose Prime Minister Chamberlain, the two parties fortunately managed to put but one candidate in the field. Last week anti-Chamberlain factions bewailed the fact that two Opposition candidates had split the Aylesbury field...
...Fascist" from Mexican Laborites and left-wingers ringing in his ears, the old "Bull of Potosí" waddled off to his great Las Palomas hacienda. From there he continued to block organization drives of the Leftist CTM labor union in his State, permitted Catholic schools to continue, defiantly hung on to his huge land holdings and held up Government agrarian engineers in their efforts to slice up Potosí estates into communal ejidos...
There was a small, triangular shelf hung between the chimney and a gable, and here Vag could lie, almost completely stripped, protected from the interested gaze of strollers who might happen to glance up at the House roof. Here he could surrender himself to the rays of the hot sun--allow these rays to suck the energy out of him until he was their debilitated slave, let them gradually numb-his senses until he felt that, by the consummation of some mysterious union he had become part of a dazzling realm of sunlight. By rolling over a slightly so that...
...chief engineer. When he decided to strike out on his own in 1920, he had saved just enough to feed his family for six months. Within that six months he persuaded a young Los Angeles millionaire named David R. Davis to finance him, and the two of them hung their hopeful shingle (DAVIS DOUGLAS CO.-ENGINEERING DEPT.) in the window of the Pico Barber Shop in Santa Monica...
Although the Elephants got the jump at the start in the feature brush and hung on to their lead, there was a hot tussle for second. At one point more than a length behind, the Bellboys but on the pressure in the last few hundred yards to nip the Deacons by a deck length...