Word: hooking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Miami, the average fisherman, a landlubber, dashes down to Pier 5 before 8 a.m. He buys a box lunch at the Trade Winds Restaurant (which also cooks the fish he catches), goes goose-bumpy at the thought of hooking a 50-lb. sailfish (which are accommodating enough to bite the year round), hires a boat, or joins a party that wants to split expenses. Then, begoggled and suntan oiled, and supplied with rod, reel and heavy 24-thread line that experts would blush at using, he is lugged to Gulf Stream fishing spots. Captain or mate tutors...
Having thus stated management's demurrer to the Walter Reuther case, Lawyer Merritt and the entire G.M. delegation walked out, left the panel and the union to do what fact-finding they could on their own hook. (Chief Fact-Finder Lloyd K. Garrison, visibly angry, pointed out that his panel had not yet asked General Motors for any earnings information and was not even sure that it would...
Some college coaches scout for themselves, but more trust the job to assistants or to game-wise alumni. The job: 1) to record each play and shot, elaborately charted with identifying letters (H for hook shots, S for set, P for push); 2) to uncover players' idiosyncrasies and ways to block hot basket-makers; 3) to cook up tricky defenses. Few ambitious coaches can afford not to scout...
...eyes on a human skull resting in a bowl of roses, "to make some mistakes your first year. We all do. I got in with some thoroughly objectionable . . . men who ran a mission to hop-pickers in the long vac. But you, my dear Charles . . . have gone straight hook, line and sinker, into the very worst set in the University. . . . There's that chap Sebastian Flyte you seem inseparable from. . . . [He] looks odd to me. ... Of course, they're an odd family...
...plainest language he could muster, about his troubles in making the "real jazz" pay enough for tea for two, or keep body & soul together night & day: "We bled to death. We were eating off each other's wrists. We had one paper hat right on the hook but when we mentioned money he jumped back in the icebox." Another potential sponsor died during negotiations: "He went cool on us. They had to throw dirt...