Word: hob
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...besieging Trondheim from the south. Another contingent hurried southeast to brace the retreating Norse at Lillehammer (famed resort, home of Novelist Sigrid Undset) who faced the main German Army. In the Dovre Mountains around Dombås. German bombing planes, unopposed by Allied fighters or antiaircraft, again raised hob. They furiously strafed transports and harbor facilities at Molde and Andalsnes, blasted stations and rolling stock along the railroad, rendered precarious the communications and supply between both Allied advance parties and their slower-moving main force. When Allied airmen improvised a landing field on a frozen road southwest of Andalsnes...
Died. Abraham Solomon Shafer, 47, building contractor, who raised hob at President Roosevelt's Little Businessmen's conference in 1938 (got himself ejected); by his own hand (hanging); in Philadelphia...
...gambler. He got the idea from an ancient English game called Noddy, mixed the proportions of luck (drawing cards) and skill (playing them) so piquantly that the game appealed to every Englishman's taste, soon became synonymous with a cozy fireside and a little something simmering on the hob. When English colonists went to the U. S., cribbage went along, too, sprouted wherever there were two people, a fireside and a long winter evening...
Next day President Conant will hob sob will the faculty of the California Institute of Technology and will speak to them on the subject of changes in ideas in relation to organic chemistry...