Word: hoisted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brief and not very glorious annals of the Mexican War (1846-48) include certain quaintly sketchy chapters on U. S. naval operations in California. Men-of-war from England, France, Russia and the U. S. had been tacking along that beautiful coast for years, itching to hoist-and occasionally hoisting-their flags in nominally Mexican territory. At the outbreak of war the U. S. Government sent Commodore Robert Field Stockton, a fire-eating officer from Princeton, N. J., to reinforce the Pacific squadron. Mexican ports were blockaded, Mexican ships burned, Mexican towns bombarded. In several engagements Commodore Stockton...
...hoist with a hookah," one pipe addict commented, while another said. "It satisfies our oral libido...
...people make their living off the land, yet 60% of the arable ground is owned by fewer than 600 families. To the hacendados (landowners), Chile's ruling class, Candidate Ross is "the ablest financier on the continent" because, as Finance Minister under President Alessandri, he was able to hoist Chile from the World Depression and a private slump of her own without further burdening the huge land holdings...
...kind of thing would not go down with the untutored public. Wood ignored their advice, continued to give his audiences small doses of modern music, gradually increasing them with the years. That the works of Scriabin, Sibelius, Bela Bartók and such English composers as Vaughan Williams, Gustav Hoist, Arnold Bax and William Walton are now popular pieces in the repertory of all British symphonic orchestras is largely due to his efforts...
Most troublesome single spot on Western Union's ten lines to Europe is on the Atlantic shelf, 500 feet to 2,000 feet down, off the west coast of Eire. There, halibut-fishers drag heavy iron-weighted nets over the ocean's floor, frequently break cables, sometimes hoist them to the surface, cut them with an ax. To stop this Irish interference, the 2,641-ton, Canadian-manned cable ship. Lord Kelvin, put out last week from Manhattan. Aboard was three-quarters of a mile of nickel steel chain, longest ever forged, to drag a submarine plow Western...