Word: hoisting
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...each morn we hoist up our blue bookbags and stagger through Cambridge on to our goal, be it the west coast, the east coast, or a spot in the middle. In the meantime, we can add one more alphabetical formula to our increasing stock on hand, SC, which we can now flaunt as a reward for our struggles...
...Admiral William D. Leahy's favorite newsman, the Washington Star's Constantine Brown, reported: High Washington circles had known for a long time that General de Gaulle "wished to create a powerful political machine by which he would hoist himself as the unchallenged ruler of France...
...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...