Word: holing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last resort, Bissell went to see Bingham. Bingham said "no." He said "no" because the HAA is in a hole, because not enough people play polo to justify the expense, and because other sports already have priority on any windfalls the HAA collects...
...government intelligence officer remarked that Markos' affliction was, no doubt, "a small round hole in the head." Although it seemed most probable that he had been executed by his fellow Communists, there was a slight possibility that he might have escaped into Yugoslavia. It made no difference. In one way or another, Markos had been removed from the scene...
...flat tire. It was a blowout all right and he had no spare. Then, as Lewenthal retells it, he made for a shadowy little bistro, telephoned a garage and ordered a bite to eat. A few age-stained canvases were hung about the walls. One even had a hole in it. Lewenthal flicked on his cigarette lighter and looked more closely at the grimy thing. He almost jumped out of his skin...
Winter or ice finishing is fine for the casual athlete who can only operate with bursts of energy. The technique, practised wherever there is ice in New England, is to chip a simple hole in the ice, drop a hook and bait into the water. At the other end of the line you attach a wooden bob with a violent red flag on a short length of stick and lay same on the ice next to the hole...
...chair and wait; when the fish bites the bob and the flag are pulled into the water and begin waving vigorously. Then you have to unlock the fish and rebait the hook. "Bobhouse fishing," a popular variant of this sport, requires a little hut which you erect over the hole so as to keep warm while watching the red flag for action...