Word: hoisted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proposed while Shinwell presented a leather-bound copy of the Coal Industry Nationalization Act to plump, pink Lord Hyndley (rhymes with kindly), who will run the mines as National Coal Board Chairman. Afterward Lord Hyndley, 63, would climb to the roof of his Berkeley Square office building and hoist the Coal Board's new flag (royal blue with "NCB" in white block letters...
...those 7,000, 100 boys were chosen as members of the Bremen Boys' Club, BBC for short. Two original members, Martin Girschner, 16, now temporary president, and Guenther Hoist, 15, now temporary vice president, helped with selections. Applicants were asked to fill out forms. On the basis of these forms and the way in which questions were answered, the selections were made. Membership had to be limited, but there are now about 20 more than the limit of 100 in the club...
Often during the five years before Pearl Harbor, Dr. Stuart acted as a Sino-Japanese middleman. Betweentimes, he was kept busy bailing his Nationalist-minded students and faculty members out of Jap occupation headquarters and stalling Japs who wanted to hoist the puppet flag over Yenching. After the start of U.S.-Jap hostilities, when Stuart himself was interned in a house in Peiping, the Japs, who had hoped to exploit his close personal friendship with Chiang, refused to let him be repatriated to the U.S. He spent the war writing a commentary on the New Testament and playing anagrams with...
...body snatchers signed themselves "Democratic Fascist Party," a blackshirt lunatic fringe. But when rumor spread that the Democratic Fascists would ecstatically hoist Mussolini's remains on the Piazza Venezia's cenotaph, in view of Fascism's most glorious balcony, the police put on extra guards to repel a repulsive resurrection...
...auditorium will serve for official ceremonies, press conferences, radio and television broadcasts, private and public meetings, movies and social affairs. Be sides a stage which can be lowered out of sight on a hydraulic hoist, it will have two soundproofed radio booths and an elevated booth for photographers...