Word: hob
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down and personally signed letters to 40,000 men & women in his employ warning them, on penalty of discharge, that every A & P customer "must get 16 ounces to every pound." Moreover, John set up a big board at headquarters to mark every supermarket's quarterly showing, raised hob whenever one turned up the white card indicating a "stock gain," i.e., a dollar "take" exceeding the retail value of all goods sold, a sign of possible overcharging or short-weighing. Now, says Mr. John firmly, virtually all of the supermarkets consistently show stock losses...
...effort to inject speed into his half-back line, Munro will start Bill Engstrom and Pants Pantalconi with regular Hob Harding. Pantaleoni has been pampered by to sprained ankles and may not be able to play the whole game...
Another end, varsity letterman Hob Di Blanio, dropped from the squad; he was recuperating from a recent appendectomy...
Sunset Boulevard (Paramount) is a story of Hollywood, mostly at its worst, brilliantly told by Hollywood at its best. A daring film by ordinary movie standards, it is the last collaborative fling by Charles Brackett & Billy Wilder* at a specialty they have made their own: playing hob with convention and getting away with it. It also brings Actress Gloria Swanson back to the screen, after a nine-year absence, in a performance that puts her right up in the running for the first Oscar of her 37-year career...
Treasurer of the U.S. Mrs. Georgia Neese Clark confessed that life in Washington had played hob with her private budget: "It's just that no matter what I allocate for my personal expenditures, I always seem to have to transfer funds from my personal business account to keep from going into...