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Word: hoist (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tape recorders. Said Mickey proudly: "I could spit on the sidewalk and it would make headlines." For five hours, without notes and without much help from his two lawyers, he answered questions put by committee lawyers and three Senators. Whenever they put him on the spot, Mickey would hoist his bushy eyebrows, look injured and answer: "I don't know." He denied every charge on which he was questioned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: I Ain't Never . . . | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

...modern-day witches but that they can be modish and highly efficient, and that one of them is attractive enough to ensnare a bright Manhattan publisher. When the publisher discovers she is a witch, he walks out on her-only for her to discover she is now a woman. Hoist on her own broomstick, she has fallen in love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Nov. 27, 1950 | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

...blue & white flag flapped quietly last week beside the Stars and Stripes, on flagpoles here & there throughout the land. But in other towns, officials nervously stood by the halyards, ready to hoist or lower away as embattled clubwomen and veterans' organizations argued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONTROVERSY: Old Glory & Something Blue | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

Jones pulled back but decided to go in for a second try, hoping to lift the pilot out of his foxhole with a sling. "I was hovering over the pilot with the hoist sling down," Jones reported later, "but he gave me a frantic wave-off, as small arms fire opened up all around us . . . I heard bullets hitting the helicopter and gas fumes began to fill the cockpit ... I think he knew that he was done for and didn't want us to get it too. He just wouldn't take the sling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEN AT WAR: Story of a Helicopter | 10/16/1950 | See Source »

After Hannibal. Teak (for the decks of combat ships, etc.) had a high priority in World War II. It was Elephant Bill Williams' job to get it out. Later, on active duty as a lieutenant colonel, he used the animals to haul bridge timbers and supplies, hoist bogged-down army equipment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jumbo in Burma | 7/31/1950 | See Source »

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