Word: hob
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Amsterdam's Op Volharding Volgt Overwinning (perseverance leads to victory) team, Hannie, 25, had just spent a month in the U.S. at the New York Giants' training camp (TIME, Feb. 25). He learned some tricky pitches, but Hannie and the things he had learned in America played hob with Honkbal...
Emerson's fine effort took most of the shine from the food relief hob turned in by the Crimson's own Rufe Webb. Rushed in to replace starter John Arnold in the very first inning, the little lefthander found the bases full, one run in and only...
...Outcasts of Poker Flat (20th Century-Fox) plays hob with Bret Harte's somber 1869 tale about a gambler, a drunk and a couple of ladies of easy virtue who are booted out of a California Gold Rush town as undesirables and die of cold and starvation in a snowbound mountain cabin. The picture casts out much of the pungent realism of Harte's story and adds some new characters, a dash of old-hat movie melodramatics, a romance and a happy ending...
Green pointed out that there was 'so much premeditation" involved in the march on the Annex that he could not dismiss or file the case. "Just because the boys come here to school doesn't mean they can raise hob," he said. "Residents of Cambridge are entitled to be protected...
...hours of searching, only 61 of the Hob son's men, many of them dazed and injured, were found. As the Wasp steamed slowly back toward New York, her bow sliced open along the waterline by the impact, 176 men, including the Hobson's skipper, Commander William J. Tierney, were missing and presumably lost-the biggest peacetime casualty list in modern U.S. naval history...