Word: hook
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Knots of eager partisans surrounded the individual fireman in the early stages of the battle, until the protection of Cambridge blue coats insured the safety of the coveted fire hats. A dash for the fire trucks had apparently been foreseen for every hat was carefully secured to its respective hook...
Apple-Cheeked Gwilym. Since all is fair in love and politics, Conservatives baited their hook to catch workpeople's votes by popping into one of the Party's showiest offices an apple-cheeked ex-coal-miner, one Gwilym Rowlands, an oldster as pink and enticing as an angler's worm...
...Hoover line jerked, went slack, jerked again. Below the water a rapier snout struck at the bonito, crunched on the hook. The fisherman let his line out fast, as the creature sped away, leapt into sunlight, shook itself angrily. The Hoover line was taut again and remained so for 25 struggling minutes, as the next President and his first sailfish fought it out in the Gulf Stream...
...Tarpon are Florida's gamiest fish, sailfish next. Tarpon do not run until early March. Sailfish, named from the large dorsal fin, measure six or seven feet, weigh 40 to 70 pounds. Strong, fierce, canny, four out of five get off the hook...
...Saint-Brieux, France, one Victor Rousoult was walking along the docks where he worked, when a dangling hook caught in the ring on his finger. The derrick from which the hook dangled hoisted ring, finger and Rousoult 100 feet into the air. Comrades saw, shouted. The derrick lowered Rousoult to the ground. When he was within a few feet of landing, his finger tore...