Word: hock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beat is hard and jumping, the yodels are nasal, and the clipped British consonants that bristle occasionally among the carefully slurred ham-hock vowels are hilarious. The songs are chain-gang, camp-meeting U.S. imports: Wabash Cannonball, Frankie and Johnny, I Shall Not Be Moved. The musicians generally are amateurs, paid with coffee and Cokes, belting out their rockabilly on a couple of guitars, a banjo and a bass fiddle (sometimes store-bought, more often conjured out of an empty tea chest, a broomstick and a knotted string...
...come from unstately homes (with names like Kosy Kot) in dim English suburbs. They never had it so good ("We're on to a good thing here, and for Christ's sake let's enjoy it"), but it is not good enough. They are perpetually in hock to the merchants, forever struggling to make the frayed ends of their tropical pants match their sahib status. Furthermore, there is the new look in colonial policy: Asiatics have become Asians, and Malayan, Eurasian, Chinese or Indian can get away with murder while the British must punish themselves...
...sloppy caricature of the man who had once been the greatest heavyweight fist fighter in the world, Joe Louis pulled on a pair of red bathing trunks and tangled with Cowboy Rocky Lee in a professional wrestling match at Washington's Uline Arena. Broke, in hock to the Government for more than $1,200,000 in back taxes, Joe earned about $1,500 by belting the Cowboy out of the ring with a short jab to the belly. "It's an honest living," was the best he could say of his new occupation...
...facing and white tie; 2) we drank Merienda, an excellent, medium-dry sherry. Then we adjourned to the hall to take Chablis with the oysters; 3) this was followed by a clear soup. With the next dish, turbot-that's a fish-cutlets-we took a little hock; 4) we went on to roast duckling with a truly magnificent claret, St. Emilion Clos Fourtet 1943, I believe; 5) this was followed by oeufs benedictines . . . The second claret-by tradition we always take two-came with the Stilton cheese. Then we adjourned for a little fruit and some Cockburn...
...almost all other states prorating still booms along with little or no regulation. The commonest abuse is the consultant's practice of extracting the fee from the first payments, thus leaving the debtor still more in hock. For example, a New Yorker gave the budgeteer $35 a week for three weeks for payments on his $2,000 debt. He then discovered that $80 of the $105 had been diverted to the budgeteer, only $25 to creditors. There are other sharp practices. The Federal Grand Jury in Chicago last year indicted a debt-pool outfit which assessed customers...