Word: hoists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hoist. In Detroit, John Gremblewski prepared a poisoned ham sandwich, left it out for rats, later got hungry. He will recover...
...Hoist. In Washington, the Post Office Department took routine steps to send bond posters to East Bridgewater, Mass., addressed East Bridgewater's allotment on its own machines, got East Bridgewater's package back, stamped "insufficient address...
...suit and wondering how many thousands of Chinese dollars he could get for it, was little better off than the university professor wondering whether he should abandon his career, with its paltry fixed salary, for a bank clerk's job where at least there was some attempt to hoist wages as the cost of living soared. In this atmosphere, U.S. Army men in China soon lost all sense of normal value. It is no novelty to see a U.S. soldier or civilian official offer 30 U.S. dollars ($3,000 Chinese, at black-market rate) for a bottle of Scotch...
...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...