Word: hook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been of tremendous help to embattled U.S. and South Korean ground forces. One day last week, a Korean police post called to report a detail of Red soldiers, 20 trucks and 10 horse carts were parked in front of their station in Chongyang. A short time later, Captain William Hook and his wingman reported the total destruction of the trucks, horse carts and most of Chongyang with firebombs and rockets. Sometimes the Air Force makes mistakes. From one hard-pressed South Korean unit, U.S. officers at headquarters of the Korean army's 3rd Division received the following plaintive message...
Lilibet, says Crawfie, was "quick with her left hook," and Margaret was "known to bite on occasions." The result: "a hand bearing the royal teeth marks...
Every year the life of the U.S. fish gets more hazardous, and-presumably-U.S. thoughts grow cleaner. In 1949, an estimated 25 million citizens tempted him with hook-studded live frogs, gaily feathered flies, and plump, harmless-looking nightcrawlers. The number of U.S. anglers, says Editor Bruce R. Tuttle in his introduction to The Standard Book of Fishing, is even larger...
...game fish, says Fishing, is "any fish caught on rod and line, putting up any fight, and not thrown back in disgust by the angler." That includes even the "detested, despised, and berated" carp, a "keen-brained root-eater" as hard to hook as a confirmed bachelor...
...that time the carp, who are mainly vegetarians, should be using that spot for a feeding ground. A ball of half-baked dough or a piece of half-boiled vegetable is good for bait. Cast it near the feeding ground, give it a foot of slack line, "set" the hook as soon as the outsmarted carp starts moving away. If he is played away from his feeding ground, "other carp will not be frightened and as many as four or five . . . may be taken...