Word: hoist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Puerto Madryn, a small town on the coast of Patagonia, a lone freighter was unloading one day last week. A big wooden crate slipped from its hoist, splintered on the docks, and out tumbled a bright pile of costume jewelry from Japan. "Enough trinkets," said a bored customs officer, "to adorn every nanny goat in Patagonia." The jewelry, as the customs officer well knew, would soon be heading north from barren, duty-free Patagonia as a routine part of Latin America's most wide-open smuggling operation...
Howard Fast is very slow off the Marx. When he joined the Communist Party in 1943, the world had already been treated to the Moscow purge trials and the Nazi-Soviet pact, and in his successful novels (Citizen Tom Paine, The Unvanquished) he had already tried to hoist the Red flag retroactively over the American Revolution. He "saw the Communists as the bravest and most skillful fighters for man's freedom." Now he says, "I was mistaken," but it took him nearly 14 years-until Khrushchev's mid-1956 "secret report" of Stalin's "paranoiac blood lust...
...spirit of levity had moved one gang of youths to hoist an usher above its shoulders and hurl him down a flight of stairs. The crowd roared and the City's Pride convened for action. The show went on, oblivious and even louder...
...third-floor composing room of the Chicago Sun-Times last week, a forklift truck nosed up to a clattering Linotype and tweaked it away from under the operator's fingers. Backing out, the tractor trundled the two-ton Linotype to a special elevator hoist that whisked it into a waiting truck on Franklin Street. Twenty minutes later the Linotype, its lead still molten, clattered back into action at the new $20 million Sun-Times building on the north side of the Chicago River, six blocks away...
Over-enthusiastic supporters of the Big Green not only damaged Band instruments, but also fouled halyards on the Soldiers Field flagpole while attempting to hoist the Dartmouth flag. Carroll F. Getchell, Business Manager of the Harvard Athletic Association, described their action as "vandalism" and said that it was necessary to employ a steeplejack to restore the flagpole to working order...