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Word: hooke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Donald MacKenzie." The fishing got even better: "You certainly know the holes for these beauties," he told Guide MacKenzie. All in all, around 100 bass were taken (biggest: 4 lb. 2 oz.), five pike and pickerel. The Old Fisherman got most of them. Some others who wet a hook: Admiral William D. Leahy, Vice Admiral Wilson Brown, Major General Edwin M. Watson, Rear Admiral Ross McIntyre, James F. Byrnes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Old Fisherman | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

Canadians Forward. As the Eighth Army's "left hook," the Canadians shared the job of outflanking Catania, the eastern anchor of the German line. They slugged a path across the terraced hills. They tried their bayonets and lungs in vicious charges through vineyards and lemon orchards. They helped the British into Regalbuto and Centuripe. From that high ground they could roll up the whole German line on Mt. Etna's western slope. General Montgomery could now begin the envelopment of Catania, and thereby spare his men a costly frontal assault...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF SICILY: To Charybdis, the Scylla | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

Tommies Forward. Under savage artillery and mortar fire the Eighth Army leveled a road across the dried river bed of the Dittaino. This was part of the "left hook." In the first were the British 78th Division (veterans of Tunisia's Long Stop Hill), the soth Northumbrians and the 51st Highlanders. Between Centuripe and Paterno they tangled in the hardest struggle of the campaign. But the men that punched forward and the men left behind broke the Etna line, tore away Catania's flank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF SICILY: To Charybdis, the Scylla | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

...that perhaps, like earthworms, the Soil Engineers only came out of the ground when it rained. But last Tuesday I found out the practical reason why Soil Engineering and Electronics are so closely united. I wanted to connect a cathode to ground, and I didn't know where to hook the wire, when along came a Soil Engineer with a new kind of circuit element which he said was "ground...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Electronics School | 6/18/1943 | See Source »

Sirs: According to your Books department (TIME, May 17) Professors James Burnham and Sidney Hook, top-ranking specialists on Marxism, are now "concerned with the question of whether democracy, in the sense of government by the people, is possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 14, 1943 | 6/14/1943 | See Source »

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