Word: hung
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...provincial chief, Colonel Nguyen Mong Hung, urged the students to remember that "without the Americans, you would have no school at all." But he was hooted down, and the crowd overturned U.S. vehicles and wrecked bars and restaurants frequented by Americans. The demonstrations were finally dampened by drenching rains, a curfew and unsympathetic Vietnamese troops...
...Vegas. He assured Laxalt that he wanted Maheu fired. "There is no doubt it was Hughes," said Laxalt, who has never met the man but had previously spoken to him on the phone. "He made too many personal references to things we had talked about before." As he hung up, Laxalt said: "Well, Las Vegas isn't Mr. Maheu's town any more...
Some Alaskans talk about their guns the way stock-car racing buffs talk about their cars. But it's nothing to wonder at, because hunting is a major recreation for Alaskans, as well as a means of getting food for many. If some Alaskans like to carry their rifles hung in the back windows of their pick-up trucks even when it's not hunting season, it's not so much a demonstration of militance as of the kind of spirit that prompted one Alaskan candidate in this fall's elections to pass out bumper stickers with the legend...
Clayton was spectacular in taking the 600 yard run and the 100 yard run. In both events, he hung behind the leader until late in the race, and then sprinted past for the victory. Clayton, Mark Connolly, and a B. C. runner were matched pace for pace until the last lap of the 1000. Clayton then moved smoothly out for first place in 2:15.9. Connolly was third...
...baffled me; it seemed like a story. It was so matter-of-fact that I couldn't quite believe it was poetry. But it went on, about the skin that "hung in strips/like ancient wallpaper," and about the eyes with "irises backed and packed/with tarnished tinfoil," and then about the five hooks in the fish's mouth...