Word: hocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...list price, the reimposition of excise taxes in March tacked on another $25 or so, and tight money has kicked up the carrying charges for an average car loan by $24 a year. Says Ford Division Chief Donald Frey: "The willingness of the consumer to go into hock has reached a plateau...
...newlywedded bohemian idiots, young free-spirited disasters of innocence and honesty. He, execrably played by Beau Bridges, and she, execrably played by Barbara Dana, are about to become parents in name only. Their immediate life plan consists of divorce for themselves, adoption for their unborn child. In intellectual hock to his psychoanalyst, Beau has convinced Barbara that he and she are emotionally unready for parenthood. A hotter squarehead prevails. Hiram Sherman is a proper-minded homosexual, more censorious than Cato the Elder. He has raised Beau since the lad was a 15-year-old pickup...
...born restless," writes Parks, and he tried everything. In 1937, after seeing a collection of dust-bowl pictures by Carl Mydans, Walker Evans and Ben Shahn (who in those days was a photographer as well as a painter), Parks decided to try photography. He hustled to a downtown Seattle hock shop, bought a $12.50 Voigtlander camera, spent half an hour learning how to use the thing, then began shooting everything that crossed his path. So intent was he that he fell into Puget Sound while trying to photograph sea gulls...
...years the pawnbroker's traditional three gold balls have been the symbol of the down-and-outer. Today the poor can rely on relief or welfare agencies, and who goes to the local hock shop? The high-lifers in the middle and upper classes who are overextended at the bank and need a little ready cash with no questions asked...
...loan applications. Doubtfuls usually wind up in his second-floor office to plead their cases, frequently get their loans after careful investigation. "We only take bankable situations," insists Hudgins. But these include some situations that most other banks would not touch. Examples: a small businessman who found himself in hock to a loan shark to the extent of $3,000 a month persuaded Freedom National to take over his loan, now pays only $600; another businessman who asked for $10,000, instead was given $25,000 with tight controls in order to save not only his liquor store...