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Word: hook (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hook-shot artist Dave Warden and Chuck Brynteson, a set-shot specialist, are high-scorers for the Dunster five. Six foot, four inch sophomore Pete Walker and Hugh Raphael, who started for the freshman team last year, are strong on defense. Forward Don Drummond is the playmaker for the squad...

Author: By Edward J. Coughlin, | Title: Lining Them Up | 3/15/1950 | See Source »

...Harry Byrd himself, quit the floor. -Angered by the pointed snub, Humphrey shouted defiantly: "The shrinking violet has not been clipped." He still thought that the Byrd committee was "a sort of political zombie," that it claimed credit for economies that the Administration had accomplished on its own hook. Cried Humphrey: "I would not say that was patting oneself on the back. I would say that is just twisting oneself up like a pretzel and spinning and announcing to the world the greatness of one's accomplishments." But Freshman Humphrey, decisively rebuked, was shouting to an all-but-empty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Elephant Hunt | 3/13/1950 | See Source »

...Knox hook and ladder rig, the noble warrior of the department, was bought from a Boston fire station and rushed to the Harvard division to become the workhorse of the University force. The Knox, featuring solid rubber tires and a built-in water pump, was by far the finest engine Harvard had ever owned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Fire-Fighters Reminisce About War Time Rigours And Monthly Banquets | 3/9/1950 | See Source »

...royalty deal (a minimum of $20,000 a year plus $2 for each machine sold in excess of 10,000). The machine, which has an adaptation of a powerful hydraulic pump previously used for cleaning airplane parts, needs no installation; just plug it into a socket and hook it onto the kitchen faucet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW PRODUCTS: Come Out of the Kitchen | 3/6/1950 | See Source »

...raid drill brought apparatus ranging from a hook and ladder and eight ambulances to four garbage trucks, two snowplows, and a paddy wagon to Cambridge Common yesterday afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Preparing for War | 3/6/1950 | See Source »

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