Word: hoist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know they are loafers because no business house would allow them to work in such fantastic outfits. If you are a serviceman with a few dollars in your pocket, you also know that some of them are ready to hoist you into an alley and roll...
...Engineers showed little power as Mal Moley, losing only one game, took their number one man in two short sets. Captain Don Daniels won two out of three sets to hoist another marker for the Crimson netters. Both Jack Lynch and Charlie Greenspan were forced into three sets to win. Tom Baker completed the singles sweep by an 8-6, 6-0 triumph...
Three hundred newspapers in seven western States are carrying this help-wanted ad to lure white collar men to the railroads-to tamp ballast, replace ties, hoist the heavy rails. As war cargoes ride the rails and troopships wait at the railheads, workers on the roadbeds are needed more and more. But before it advertised for white-collar hands, Southern Pacific cautiously experimented...
Thousands of feet above sea level tower the Owen Stanley mountains. Thick, jungly undergrowth, palms, bamboos, rotting and slimy vegetation cover their jagged flanks. Natives hoist themselves up the precipitous slopes by trailing liana vines. Waterfalls, gorges and limestone cliffs form freakish barriers. Strange, malicious insects infest the equatorial hell. It is one of the world's wildest jungles. Last week the Owen Stanley* range still stood. But the Japs, in less than a week's time, had negotiated...
...were there to hear the light, pleasant band numbers: a grand march, a Strauss waltz, a fantasy for cornet. Others came for the tangier items by modern composers: Aaron Copland's An Outdoor Overture (led by the composer), a suite for band by the late British composer Gustav Hoist, works by Percy Grainger, Philip James, Stravinsky. Bandmaster Goldman caters to varied tastes, puts on music undreamed-of in oldtime band-concert days, when the Poet and Peasant Overture was the absolute ceiling...