Word: hob
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...producing a lot less copper this year than it could if the copper mines could keep their miners from drifting off to greener pastures: higher-pay West coast shipyards and factories. Don Nelson and the C.I.O. Mine, Mill & Smelters Union are agreed: high pay in war plants* is playing hob with mining, just as it is playing hob with West Coast lumbering (TIME, June...
...effective against troops, tanks and guns in actual zones of combat-and thus lacked planes adapted to such attacks. Instead, the R.A.F. concentrated its attacks on: 1) enemy planes; 2) airdromes and supply lines in Rommel's immediate rear. British pilots, many of them in U.S. planes, raised hob with such targets. But that was not enough. At the pinch Rommel still had enough tanks, guns and supplies. And he had the dive-bombers to crack Bir Hacheim, Tobruk and Matr...
...real significance of Madagascar is that its lee shore shelters the 250-mile wide, heavily-trafficked Mozambique Channel, which, if the island were in Jap hands, would seem to Allied shipping like the neck of a bottle of poison. From the island the Japanese could play hob with Allied shipping bound either for Suez or India. But for once the Jap had been beaten to the punch...
Blithe Spirit. Noel Coward's gay farce of how a first wife's mischievous ghost plays hob with a writer's second marriage (TIME...
...Play Hob. Father John has still another bag in which to stow unorganized workers, and another relative to hold the bag: loyal Brother Denny, whose United Construction Workers union has invaded A.F. of L.'s building trades, has grabbed everybody it could lay its hands on. How many new C.I.O. members are under the Lewis flag is a military secret buried deep in Lewis' files. But there are enough to play hob with C.I.O. harmony, enough to start a dozen bitter labor jurisdictional wars...