Word: hooking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...done to allay it. "Voluntary reduction of consumption," he said, "is the first step. We should eat less . . . eat less meat and eat less extravagantly." He went right on talking. The Chicago Daily News's Ed Lahey broke in, gave him a chance to get off the hook by asking: "Do you think that would cover the whole populace...
...Hook. In Texarkana, Ark., Dr. J. A. Little golfed to the shallow part of a water hazard, took a healthy swing, nib-licked high & dry one four-pound bass...
...Norman (Gable) is quite an operator. Women of all sorts tumble for him like so many roundheeled dominoes, and he clearly qualifies for a fancy future in radio advertising. He knows, to perfection, how to walk into a cushy job by appearing to walk out on it; how to hook a gentlewoman (Miss Kerr) for a soap testimonial; how to turn out a commercial ("Love That Soap") that turns even his own stomach; how to finesse a sharp deal and how to make it stick by the application of blackmail. Above all, he knows how to please his agency...
...balked. "Slave bill" had been labor's name for that measure, as it was for the Taft-Hartley bill. Labor's rallying cry then was: "Down with Truman" (TIME, June 10, 1946). Cool heads in Congress-notably Bob Taft's-had got Harry Truman off that hook by beating his bill...
...Knight holds that there is "one nice thing about fishing-you can always put 'em back." He is not the kind of angler who takes the limit catch. But his splashingly successful four-month-old syndicated newspaper feature is helping fishermen in 35 states and three Canadian provinces hook more trout, bass and muskies than ever before...