Word: hob
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exists at all, exists only against something. Last week events in Syria drove other Arab nations into common concern. One group of worried Arab powers centered around Egypt. Syria as a Russian satellite would rob Nasser of his chosen role as the leader of Arab nationalism, and play hob with all the talk of a Syria-Egypt merger and with the joint Syrian-Egyptian army command under Egypt's General Amer...
...time face to face with a piece of "anticolonialism" that could hurt it as sorely as it could hurt the powers west of Suez. Since most of India's trade with Europe moves via Suez, any interference with canal traffic or an increase in canal rates would play hob with India's new five-year plan. Even more disturbing to India is the prospect that if Nasser were to fall, Egypt (and the canal) might fall into the hands of an orthodox Moslem government that would ally itself with India's bitter enemy, Moslem Pakistan. Nehru...
...Piano Tuner O. J. Dodd told fellow delegates to the National Piano Tuners' convention in Kansas City that rock 'n' roll is raising hob with the nation's keyboards. For the first time in his long professional career, he said, he had seen a piano's thick bass chord snapped by a pianist flailing out a thundering rock-'n'-roll chorus...
...this point Khrushchev lost his aplomb, and in revealing flashes of anger exposed the harsh Communist behind the beaming clown. His denunciation of Social Democrats played hob with the Communists' seductive pleas for a Popular Front (see box); his truculent assertion of Russian nuclear capacity spoiled his peace-loving professions, and stole the play from his skillful offer of profitable East-West trade. The British consensus is that Georgy Malenkov is an able fellow and Bulganin an amiable second-rater, but that Khrushchev is a crude, crafty and headlong ruler who must be watched and cannot be trusted...
...spoil the successful marriage of Tom Forester, boy adman? Author Wallop is noted for his 1954 crystal-gazing novel, The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant (later the hit musical Damn Yankees), in which he showed how the Devil, with an assist from a Washington Senator outfielder, could raise hob in a baseball stadium; now he shows how the devil in the flesh complicates family life in the Madison Avenue...