Word: hung
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Happily, the four boaters cruised south for 125 downstream miles, beyond Candlestick Spire toward the roily confluence of the Green and Colorado Rivers. There Pilot Del Rich stopped to help another boat, which was hung up on a sandbar. The rest of the Friendship Cruisers moved past and out of sight. Rich set off after them. Time and again the boaters had been warned to turn left and head upstream into the Colorado, not downstream. But Rich unthinkingly took the wrong turn and cruised on into the white water of Cataract Canyon. It was a human mistake-past the point...
...floor of a large building where the directing organs of various firms and organizations are located, hung a small board with the inscription, "Legal Office of the National Farmers Union." At the entrance we were met by Richard Shipman, assistant for legal affairs, and Arthur Thompson, the editor of the Union's publications...
There was no doubt that John Foster Dulles' illness hung heavily on the President's mind in everything he did. "It is like losing a brother," he had said; and from Dwight Eisenhower, brought up one of seven brothers in Abilene, Kans., the remark had deep meaning. Nor was there any doubt that the President meant to keep Dulles on his staff, at least in name, as long as Dulles was able...
...Peking from about 300 miles west of Canton. They wore their hair long, shunning the shaved head and braided pigtail as marks of Manchu enslavement, and took spirited noms de guerre-"Enemy-Breaking," "Rush on Foe," "Report Success." "God is the father of the generals of this army," Hung told his men. The God-worshipers swarmed down the Yangtze River valley and into Nanking, covering 1,400 miles in 27 months...
Calvin plus Savonarola. There Hung set up regal headquarters and proclaimed: "The New Jerusalem ft the present Nanking." The advance guard of his army rolled to within 100 miles of Peking but never captured the Manchu capital. For the next eleven years Hung's Nanking was ruled with the puritanical fanaticism of Calvin's Geneva and Savonarola's Florence. The decapitated heads of the Decalogue-breakers hung above the city's gates. Adulterers were wrapped in oil-soaked cloth, and set aflame. Hung himself maintained a harem that grew to 88 wives and concubines, but defended...