Word: hook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After years of trying to deal with Communist employees through the National Labor Relations Board, giant General Electric Co. is getting tough on its own hook. Before a Senate subcommittee on internal security last week, Vice President Lemuel R. (for Ricketts) Boulware announced that G.E. has already suspended (with pay) 17 of its employees who ducked behind the Fifth Amendment when asked about their Communist connections by congressional committees. The 17, said Boulware, have 90 days in which to clear themselves by answering the questions or by getting a clean bill of health from the Government. If they fail...
...medicine girl" who "dreams of flying almost every night." The rocket man is told by his double-dome dad (Herbert Marshall), a rocket scientist, to go and catch a meteorite. He does this, 80 miles above the earth, with the help of the most startling invention since the Sky Hook-the "Meteor Scoop." Details are not disclosed (presumably they are not yet known to the Russians), but the principle is evident: the rocket has a lower lip that drops down at the strategic moment, and the meteorite just pops in like an interstellar sourball...
Crimson wrestlers Ed Moriarity, Phil Horrera, John Ray, and Bob Hook lost by pins, while Frank Baker and heavyweight Pete Morrison dropped first-round decisions...
...varsity meet the sophomore-laden Eli team marched through four lightweight matches without defeat. Captain Chick Chandler in the 157 pound class momentarily rallied the varsity by trouncing Ed Abdelnoor, 8 to 2. And 167 pound Dick Hook immediately followed by beating Victor David, 8 ot 1, in his smartest match of the season...
After Captain Chick Chandler's second period pin over 157-pound Walt Lawson, the Crimson did not lose a bout. Dick Hook overpowered Peter Faderbush, 9 to 0, in the 167-pound class, Culbert's pin came at 1:05 of the first period, and heavyweight Pete Morrison slapped a body press and half nelson on M.I.T.'s Ed Zoololian in the first period to bring the meet to a rapid conclusion...