Word: hooke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...passes, a Navy gunnery record, and he advanced with the Navy from the old Liberty-engined torpedo plane ("It could make 70 m.p.h. going downhill") to the dive bombers and fighters of World War II. On his last scheduled carrier landing aboard the old Saratoga in 1941, his plane hook skipped over the arresting gear, and he crashed into the landing barrier at high speed. Badly shaken up, he climbed into another plane, took off, and came back in for a perfect landing...
Both books were written in dialogue, and the two main characters, Piscator and Viator (changed in later Walton editions to Venator) are the same. Both books give similar information on how to bait a hook with a dead minnow and prepare certain kinds of fish. They even share the same errors. The author of the Arte says that the carp is "a fish not long knowen in England," while Walton says, "nor hath been long in England." Other coincidences...
...Good Hook. In Nashville, Charles 0. Sparrow was caught shoplifting, fined $50 for swiping a Bible...
...individual. As he was convinced by the discovery of a swank little restaurant in Tashkent: "The system under which the succesful live--left or right, capitalist or communist--did not seem to make much difference to that group of people, in every city around the globe, who managed by hook or crook to live well...
...well balanced attack, four players scored 13 or more points apeice. Captain Ike Canty, using his left-handed hook shot effectively, led the team with seven baskets and 16 points. Dick Hurley netted 14 while Dick Woolston and Bob Hastings each...