Word: hooke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...invented a leather sleeve device to serve as the missing arm for one-armed golfers, a crutch with a retractable spring so that one-legged men could go bowling, a special hook with which a one-armed man could swing a softball bat, a series of gadgets for fishermen. Then he took a leave of absence from the Press, spent three years touring every major veterans' hospital in the U.S., teaching 50,000 veterans how to use his contraptions...
...chosen inadvertently when a Southern unit, foraging for shoes, ran into Union cavalry scouts at the little eastern Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg. Fighting commenced the next day, July 1, north of the town. That night the Federal troops, driven south through the village streets, dug in on a strong hook-shaped line on Cemetery Ridge. Lee's army followed, and during the next two days in fierce fighting at Little Round Top, the Devil's Den, the Wheat Field, Peach Orchard, Gulp's Hill, Spangler's Spring and other positions along the Union line, tried unsuccessfully...
...grave doubts" that the military conversations would actually result in the withdrawal of Viet Minh invaders from Laos and Cambodia, since the Communists still insist that the Viet Minh were only ''volunteers." The British and the French shrugged. The Communists had the West firmly back on the hook again...
...liked the feel of it and Picard, who was planning to throw the club away, sold it to him for $5.50. The driver cured Snead's troublesome hook, and he has carried it in his golf bag ever since, broken and repaired a dozen times. (Snead estimates that he has won more than $5,000 with it in driving contests alone.) Snead and Fred Corcoran, then tournament manager for the P.G.A., became the Gold Dust twins. Together they pulled golf out of the doldrums. Corcoran, an entrepreneur with a leprechaun nose for pots of gold, succeeded in getting...
Although McCarthy had said he would not divulge his source even if the committee ordered him to do so, Counsel Jenkins made a sweeping ruling that seemed to let Joe off the hook. Said Jenkins: "It is elementary that the Senator does not have to reveal the name of his informant. . . Otherwise, law-enforcement officers would be so hamstrung . . . that they would never be able to ferret out crime...