Word: hooke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...curiously, then aggressively hostile. The peasants marched them off toward a village, began slapping, kicking, hitting them, dug into their pockets for souvenirs as they loaded them into cars and trucks. The truck carrying Major Shupe stopped beside a telephone pole. One peasant threw a grass rope over a hook high on the pole. Said Shupe: "It sure looked like a necktie party was being organized. I had no doubt they were going to hang...
...within 75 feet of the President's desk, had received Goldfine checks, ranging from $35 to $75. They could hardly be fired, indeed, they could hardly be reprimanded-least of all by their staff chief, Sherman Adams, by whom Goldfine had done better. The Administration was on a hook, partly by deliberate choice. And there no longer seemed to be any easy...
...school generates a sense of class unity, even perhaps school unity. The school this year graduated 35 students, a group small enough so that even though obviously diverse in interests and tastes it could often plan and act as a whole--such as in putiting on the traditional "Hook Night" show to raise money for the Yearbook. And 194 is a small enough group so that most students get to know at least the names of everyone in school before the year is very...
Simone de Beauvoir's new hook on Communist China, based on a six-week visit in 1955, at the expense of the Chinese government. The author of two excellent (and appropriately titled) novels, She Came to Stay (TIME, March 15, 1954) and The Mandarins (TIME, May 28, 1956), was not alone: "There were some fifteen hundred of us [foreign] delegates roaming the length and breadth of China." But Author de Beauvoir seems to have got around on her own a good deal and to have seen a nation that, if her account could be credited, would seem...
Subversive. In Perugia, Italy, Luigi Durante, in jail for theft, threw a rope over a hook in the ceiling of his cell, tried to hang himself, had four months added to his sentence when the hook pulled out of the ceiling and he was found guilty of "doing material damage to the state...