Word: strung
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...lynching party stood him up on a box, roped him to a telegraph pole and told him to jump. He refused. They kicked the box out from under him and the rope parted. They grabbed him, put a ladder against the pole, forced him up, strung him up again and yanked the ladder away. George wrapped his arms & legs around the pole and hung on. But George eventually got tired, and the lynching was a success...
...example, ran an editorial after the release of Lattimore's memorandum on China policy which said, basically: while this doesn't prove Lattimore is a spy, he certainly has followed the Communist line here, and therefore looks very fishy to us. And an unfortunate number of other commentators have strung along with the Mirror's position...
...best to promote the same argument in his daughter's defense. "She's absolutely insane," he told newsmen. "She doesn't want to go on living." He brought an affidavit to the same effect from Yvette's mother in Brooklyn. "She was always high-strung when she was a girl," wrote Mrs. Noack. "She had a lot of crying spells. She had tantrums. She acted like a nut." At 15, the girl had run away from home, had lived with a middle-aged merchant on Manhattan's Park Avenue...
...years go by, Debby completely identifies herself with the family, listens to young Britt Merrill contemplating suicide because he has failed in school, puts up with the antics of Tomboy Betty, who likes to do anything provided it is mean enough, learns how to get along with high-strung Mrs. Merrill, and gladly forgoes her wages when Mr. Merrill is hit by the Depression. The high point of Debby's pathetic little life comes when she gets a chance to straighten Rebecca Merrill's veil just before her wedding, and happily follows the bride...
...tension . . . They all had the practice of taking notes from what I spoke . . . but I did see on frequent occasions that they merely scribbled or doodled on their papers . . . The head of the team-a short, stout, pasty-faced individual-. . . [was] very sharp and cunning, very highly strung and tense, very self-assured. He professed and indicated more knowledge of me than even myself