Word: hooking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Billy's big assets were his youth (at 28 he was in his prime), speed and the best left hook in boxing. He had come out of the Army weighing a blubbery 204; now his legs were lean, his shoulders solid. His strategy: "Make Louis back up . . . when you do, he loses half of his effectiveness...
Stalling Action. It was clear now that every section of the emergency measure was in for rough treatment. Democrats scurried again to recommit the bill, lost again by 40-to-42. Then Alben Barkley showed that the White House itself was squirming to get off the hook. He offered amendments that filed down the bill's sharp teeth in almost every section. He fought hard against others that would have put some teeth back in. The Senate scrambled Party lines, produced curious alliances and strange turnabouts. At one point Alben Barkley remarked: "To see the Senator from Florida [Pepper...
Sure Bait. In Superior, Wis., Mildred Worm agreed to marry David Hook...
...different, his aims the same. A month and a half ago Argentina abruptly closed the Paraguayan frontier. The reason given: a yellow-fever outbreak in Paraguay. It turned out to be malaria, but Paraguayans got the point, agreed to a customs union with Argentina. Bolivia was already on the hook: the Perón-minded Villarroel government felt strong enough to crack down on the Democratic Front opposition, jail leaders and handcuff the press. Chile, with a long Argentine frontier, read that Perón had come out for a Chile-Argentine customs union, and appointed its Foreign Minister...
...Hook. In Chicago, Herbert Naiditch welcomed his pretty British bride Barbara. How it all started: she cracked his ankle with a golf shot, next day beaned him with another...