Word: hobnailed
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...brightly that climber Dave Hahn likened it to "a Greek or Roman marble statue." Mallory's face was the only part of his body unexposed. He had a broken right arm, trauma to his shoulder and fractures of both leg bones just above the top of his single surviving hobnail boot. Even so, the climbers were awed by the physical specimen before them. "We each noticed the muscular arms of the climber," says Hahn. "After all these years, George Mallory still cut an impressive figure...
...when I attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, we assumed that "no frills" was the part of college education that toughened you up for the future. A hard mattress, no pillow, a 40-watt bulb, concrete floors, a muddy campus, hobnail boots and highly committed but probably underpaid teachers all contributed to making tuition $180, half a room $29 and meals at Swain Hall $126 for the year. That was the normal road to Phi Beta Kappa. EDWARD RONDTHALER Croton-on-Hudson, New York...
...arrest is only the latest in SEC Chairman John Shad's war on insider trading. Upon taking office in 1981, he pledged to come down on violators "with hobnail boots." In the past four years, the SEC has filed some 77 insider-trading suits, more than it started in the preceding 32 years. Only two weeks ago, the First Boston investment firm was forced to give up profits of $132,000 and pay a $264,000 penalty for making trades in CIGNA stock based on intelligence it had garnered from company insiders. Last year R. Foster Winans, a former Wall...
...itself and wanders off on pointless tangents. A subplot involving Delaney's critically ill wife (Faye Dunaway) is never integrated into the manhunt story, and Dunaway is wasted in a role that keeps her flat on her back. Mostly, she is forgotten as the gumshoe and the hobnail boots approach each other for the climactic confrontation. But Delaney is never in real danger: when Blank is finally cornered, he starts to cry. The resourceful villain becomes a whining victim. The dark alley, which promised delicious thrills, is a narrative dead...
...them Bengalis. In addition, more than 1,500,000 Bengalis have fled to India, and those who have stayed behind are threatened with an approaching famine that the government does not seem anxious to combat. Most outside observers have laid the responsibility for the East Pakistani tragedy to the hobnail-tough martial law imposed by Lieut. General Tikka (meaning "red hot") Khan. The West Pakistani-dominated government insists that the army has "saved the country," not destroyed it. The new official line: Bengali rebels, acting "in high conspiracy with India," were tearing through East Pakistan with "tactics reminiscent of Nazi...