Word: hob
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Henderson, backed in principle by the President, feared another of the easygoing delays for which OPM is famous. His idea is that it is too late to worry about normalcy. So he issued an order which, if he can enforce it, will play hob in Detroit-which cannot make ends meet on 2,400,000 units a year. Henderson believes that the best way to conserve scarce materials is to take them from industries using the most. He figures a 50% auto cut (along with a 30-50% cut in refrigerators and washing machines ordered at the same time) would...
...Laura Z. Hob-SON-Illustrated by Jane Miller-Viking...
...tons in 1941, Britain could expect no more than 2,100,000 in replacements from U. S. and British yards. It could hope for little expansion of its own from then on, might well suffer a shipbuilding decline if German airmen began to play hob with its home yards. Already the U. S. has supplied Great Britain (directly and through neutrals) with 1,500,000 tons which it could spare. Henceforth U. S. shipping aid waits on construction. At present, besides 1,600,000 tons on the ways and under contract, there are approximately 4,900,000 tons of ships...
Bursting at a time when class distinction is carefully soft-pedaled and most old school ties are in mothballs, Bingham's bomb raised hob. "Since when," asked the Mirror's acid columnist Cassandra, "has Democracy, fighting for its life, been a spittoon for an elderly brass hat?" "If," suggested the Herald, "only the youths from public schools prove to be efficient officers, it would be well if the public schools, which were founded for the poor . . . should be given back to the classes for whom they were intended." "The views expressed . . . do not reflect those...
Involved in the fall of Corizza were six Italian divisions, about 72,000 men. Their mechanization was their undoing in the narrow, muddy mountain passes where they stuck out Italy's neck into Greece. Like the riflemen behind trees who played hob with the British regulars in 1776, the Greek mountaineers from their hilltops demoralized an army which had been told that the Greeks would be pushovers, in fact would probably welcome Fascism with open arms. When Mussolini spoke, promising that Greece's back would be broken (TIME, Nov. 25), the Greeks continued pressing, working with geography instead...