Word: hitch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...main advantage of the set as I have it now," he shouted over the rumblings emerging from the knob-covered instruments that litter his desk, "is that it's transportable. I can run downstairs and pack the whole thing in my car, hitch it up to a storage battery, and serve as a highly efficient motorized radio emergency patrol...
Important hitch in the plan, however, was that Prince Carol, who after all had to do the proposing, balked. Then 20 years old, for five years he had been allowed by indulgent parents to taste the pleasures of Bucharest, and already he was beginning to show decided independence in his choice of women. Instead of making up to the rather plain, high-cheek-boned Grand Duchess Olga, he took a fancy to the prettier and more vivacious Grand Duchess Tatiana, the Tsar's second oldest daughter. Since this was not on the schedule, the matchmakers called the whole affair...
...went along. At Columbia City, Ind., he had a slight collision with a truck, but continued. Near Lima, Ohio, aiming for a bridge across a drainage ditch, the cruiser slithered off the roadway, sprawled across the ditch like a stricken turtle, its blunt snout ignominiously under water. A woman hitch-hiker who had been perched on the stern jumped off, fled. Driver Poulter cheerfully estimated that it would take several days to get the monster rolling again, looked forward to the vast stretches of the Antarctic snow fields, where there would be plenty of room to maneuver...
What did the hitch about the papers mean? Was Russia just going to march in without treaty formalities? With only a few minutes to spare, the Soviet Minister to Estonia finally drove up to the Foreign Office, ratifications were exchanged and Foreign Minister Karl Selter expressed his perspiring relief. Next thing M. Selter knew, the Soviet Union calmly demanded an extra Red Army base in Estonia not mentioned in the Treaty...
...still plug a song. Last Christmas, parsimonious Showman Billy Rose, whose cabaret career is paved with old music-hall favorites hired for a song, hired old Joe to sing his old songs at Manhattan's rhinestony Diamond Horseshoe. For Joe Howard, the job was a welcome hitch along his comeback trail-which last week looked promising indeed...