Word: hob
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...both the words and the music. She never sings the same song twice in the same way. Even when using an identical arrangement for I Believe, Mahalia sang one version in two minutes, 40 seconds and another in three minutes, 20 seconds - a 40-second difference that could play hob with radio's split-second timing...
...that time forgot. On the CinemaScope screen it is a multimillion-dollar reconstruction on the Williamsburg plan, with every plastic daisy on the village green set in by hand, the sheep marcelled like chorus girls, the cottages authentic from the dew on the thatch to the sweat on the hob, and even the cricket on the hearth selected for what sounds like a Sottish burr...
Queried by reporters in Washington yesterday, Sears said, "It's going to raise hob with my work in Washington. But I do not feel that any lawyer without special reason should...
...story at the local cable station and asked when it would reach New York. The operator calculated that with luck it might be delivered by the following Tuesday." Between Ndola and Capetown, the operator explained, there were an awful lot of elephants, and elephants have a habit of playing hob with telegraph lines...
Iran's survival therefore depended directly on a U.S. handout. President Eisenhower, pleased at the turn of events in Iran, was yet aware that they were also going to play hob with his attempt to cut down foreign spending. The State Department tentatively decided that the best it could offer at the moment is about $20 million out of a special emergency MSA fund. Before the U.S. threw Iran this life preserver, it wanted to discuss the rescue operation with Britain. Called in, British Ambassador Sir Roger Makins said that he realized the importance of keeping Iran...