Word: hangs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...main door had somehow loosened and the door had sprung. Air from the pressurized cabin was hissing through the crack. The officer went back to the cockpit. Several of the passengers, waking up, watched Steward Harris as he experimentally held a blanket over the crack. He was trying to hang the blanket up when the door flew open...
...play the British, having captured a New Hampshire town, decide to hang a prominent rebel as an example to the townspeople. But for the parson they are seeking (Victor Jory) they mistake a godless scamp (Evans) who is drinking tea with the parson's wife (Marsha Hunt). The scamp, however, insists on carrying out the imposture, and in the gaudiest traditions of melodrama has his neck in the noose when deliverance comes...
...Down with Tito! Hang him!" He thought Tito's guards would end his misery, but they threw away their Tommy guns, remarking: "Ah, the Americans have arrived...
Some time before he made this unusual choice, British Colonel John Wallis had shoved a .45 into his mouth and blown his brains out. As a barrister on the British commission investigating war crimes, he had helped hang German General von Kenelm; Wallis' overwhelming sense of guilt had pulled the trigger. So, in British Anthony West's first novel, The Vintage, Wallis is first seen on a mortuary slab. The rest of the book tells of his guilt-and conscience-plagued pilgrimage through the purgatory of which Cape Sable is a part...