Word: hooking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weaker or more rational man might have conceded by now that the jig was up. But Argentina's Vice President, Minister of War and Secretary of Labor conceded nothing. By hook or by crook, he was still determined to be elected President...
...disliked such things as fishing because he hated to put the worm on the hook. As a student in a Brooklyn public school he gained a reputation as a minor prodigy...
Actually the Navy court wound up by exonerating Kimmel, who would stand cleared were it not for sharply worded addenda by Fleet Admiral Ernest King and Navy Secretary Forrestal. Strongly dissenting, both declined to let Husband Kimmel off the hook...
...braces his chisel with his little finger. Other characteristic calluses: the house painter's on the front of both shins where he leans on his ladder ; the trumpet or tuba player's near the tip of the right little finger, where the finger presses against a small hook to steady the instrument; the writer's (or student's or bookkeeper's) on the side of the right middle finger; the French horn player's in the corresponding spot on the left; the floor sweeper's at the base of both thumbs ; the gardener...
London Indian. Of the 104 passengers on the Mayflower when she rounded the hook of Cape Cod and dropped anchor in Provincetown harbor, none knew anything about farming or fishing. Forty-one were members of the Separatist sect, which had fled to Holland from Scrooby England, a dozen years before. Another 40 were good Anglican churchgoers, shopkeepers and clerks from London and Southwestern England, who had jumped at the chance offered them by the expedition's London backers to pick up a fortune in the new world. The remaining 23, like cooper John Alden, were bonded workmen or indentured...