Word: hooking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week the hook was baited again. Joe Stalin replied to Henry Wallace's open letter...
...hose trucks, a hook and ladder, and two police cars beat a path to the door of a red Plymouth yesterday afternoon on Soldiers Field Road, after the undergraduate owner of the vehicle had tried unsuccessfully to suffocate a back seat bonfire with a baseball glove...
...pressed the charge of civil contempt.* Lewis could be jailed or fined on the civil charge at the discretion of the court. Morison noted that 85% of the miners had gone back. His recommendation: the civil penalty should be postponed. This meant that Lewis would still be on the hook. The court could haul him in and fine him at the drop of a miner's pick. Judge Goldsborough thought the suggestion "eminently proper" and adjourned the case...
...hook a ball deliberately (e.g., to get past a tree): turn both hands toward the right when gripping the club. To slice, turn the hands the other way over the shaft...