Word: hook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...treaties- e.g., the non-return of British soldiers, captured during the 1917 Civil War, who decided to stay in the new Soviet state. In Vishinsky's formal proposal, some French observers saw hope of an eventual compromise. Others saw it for what it was: a baited hook. At Panmunjom, Red China stands in the background behind the North Korean delegates, but if it got on a U.N. commission, as one of the "parties concerned," its new position would be official recognition, and possibly lead to full U.N. membership. Briskly, Britain's Selwyn Lloyd cut through the Vishinsky verbiage...
...Frenchmen shuffled their feet and watched Elmer, who was nonchalantly strapping an evil-looking husking hook to his right wrist. At last the speech was over, and Elmer strode into the cornfield. He seized an ear or two, ripped the husks open with his hook and tossed them into the wagon. One of the Frenchmen spat. Then Elmer took off his shirt. "Okay, Thorson," he called to his companion, a onetime Iowa farmboy now clerking at the U.S. Embassy in Paris...
Corn on the Bang-Board. Down they went like angry threshing machines through the rows of hybrid corn, grabbing an ear of corn in the left hand, ripping open the husk with the hook, seizing the ear with the right hand, tearing the husk open with the left, snapping the stripped ear off with the right and flipping it against the bang-board of the wagon, all in a single uninterrupted operation. The pair tossed corn with machine-gun precision, hitting the bang-board with a new ear every second or oftener. "Oiyoiyoi, oiyoiyoi!" shrilled one of the astounded French...
...expects good performances from Dick Keaping 130, Phil Burnaman, 137, Richard Hook, 157, and Charles Harding...
...them as individual representatives of an ancient nation turning a new page of its history. Sometimes the load is too much for his stature and he reverts (particularly where the "Thunder Box" is concerned) to scatological burlesque. Sometimes his passion for bloodshed and his awe of warriors like Ritchie-Hook so dull his intelligence that he becomes absurd. But such collapses have always been a part of Waugh. Sometimes they have seemed to be a major part, but Men at Arms argues that they are not. If his trilogy continues as well as it has begun, it will...