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Word: hangers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from a C & D mug, pour cream from a C & D jug, add sugar with a keepsake teaspoon. Di fans can purchase a copy of her famous décolleté dress for $150-one-tenth the price of the original-and store it on a Lady Di hanger. For fun, there is a crossword puzzle with answers that form a princely head. For salvation, there is a Bible, bound in silver imitation leather, and featuring, yes, those innocent, royal faces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rushing for Royal Profits | 4/20/1981 | See Source »

...kidnapers were identified as agents of a new British firm called Single Point Security Ltd., then released on the grounds that no immigration laws were violated. They were hired by John Miller, a British ne'er-do-well and hanger-on at the fringes of London's upper crust. Miller claimed he had been paid nearly $70,000 by an unknown benefactor for advance rights to the story and film rights of Biggs' capture. Explained Miller: "I have no personal vindictiveness against Biggs. I guess he robbed his train for the same reason we're doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: Biggs Bagged | 4/6/1981 | See Source »

Through montage, Hitlers flash briefly in various modes. Hitler as dictator, arm coiled back in statuesque salute; Hitler as paper-hanger--perhaps the most brilliant characterization--at work in overalls and roller, cursing the Jews and grumbling to himself about politics. Hitler as Chaplin, entertainer. Hitler's face is mocked: the haircut and moustache, his trademarks. Anyone can wear that face--like kindergarten games, drawing the hair over the forehead and the tufted whiskers above the lip on pictures of people in magazines; yes, anyone can look like Adolph Hitler--he is the common man playing out his most banal...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Hitler, Here is Your Victory | 4/23/1980 | See Source »

...plaintiff, Joan McGaw, testified during the afternoon session that, as she stepped onto a Green Line train headed for Boylston St., the coat hanger end of a man's garment bag snagged her clothes...

Author: By Brenda A. Russell, | Title: Court Acquits Emeka Ezera of Larceny | 4/4/1980 | See Source »

...victims, age one to 82, died during or soon after assaults with a variety of weapons, including a cane, a coat hanger, a belt, an electric cord and a shoe. Yet the physical injuries they suffered should not have killed them. Then, what did? The disparate group was culled by Pathologists Marilyn Cebelin and Charles Hirsch from a list of 497 assault cases that occurred in Cleveland between 1950 and 1979. After reviewing autopsy and police reports, tissue slides and hospital charts, the doctors report in Human Pathology that eleven of the 15 people had lesions in the heart similar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Mar. 24, 1980 | 3/24/1980 | See Source »

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