Word: hooke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...land. The next serious outburst erupted in Chicago. It, too, started with an incident that might have passed unnoticed in a less volatile time. Answering what turned out to be a false alarm in Garfield Park, a Negro neighborhood about five miles west of the Loop, a speeding hook-and-ladder truck knocked down a sign pole, killing Dessie Mae Williams, 23, a Negro. It was a bad setting for such an accident. Only a month earlier, a militant civil rights group called ACT had led 60 marchers to the West Garfield firehouse to demand that the all-white company...
...Halle, and John F. Kennedy, has based most of its concept of America's world role on the European situation, where the possibility of imperialism is understandably slight. Btu in the undeveloped world? Mr. Lasch hints that the old Marxist analysis of world politics, against which Niebuhr and Sidney Hook reacted so violently, might have more application than we thought. "It was widely said that Latin America, Cuba in particular, was the 'blind spot' of the Kennedy administration, otherwise liberal in its foreign policies. What was not generally appreciated was that Latin America was the blind spot...
...playing for keeps," Dirksen sought to outflank the committee. He offered his amendment as a substitute for an unrelated measure (the designation of Aug. 31-Sept. 6 as National American Legion Baseball Week). He vowed: "If I get licked this time, I'll be here to hook it on any bill that comes before the Senate." His Democratic colleague from Illinois, Paul Douglas, pledged for the opposition: "We'll fight it out on this line if it takes all summer, all fall and all year." And Congress, of course, had been yearning for early adjournment...
...Martin and Osa Johnson drew crowds to see the movies of wild animals they took in Africa and Hunter Frank Buck drew cheers for bringing them back alive. But Beatty never sentimentalized over his beasts. "You can never be certain that a lion or a tiger won't hook you if it has the opportunity," he explained. "Big cats are wild by nature, even if they're born in captivity. They never develop any affection for their trainer, no matter how gentle he may be with them...
...died when he was five or six, and when he was 17 he lost his father, a member of the petty nobility. "By nature impressionable and eager," as he remarks in La Commedia, the boy somehow acquired a superb intellectual education. At an early age his appearance was forceful-hook nose, big jaw, protruding lower lip-and his disposition thorny. "He was somewhat presumptuous, disdainful and haughty," according to a contemporary, "and knew not well how to bear himself with common people...