Word: hooking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...directly to the nation, not only would we keep ourselves in fair national physical condition but we would have presented our people with at least one common experience, one duty common to all. From the rich playboy to the sweating coal miner, each man would have this one tiny hook on which to hang a personal understanding of the other man. At present there is none-to the intense weakness of our nation...
...much of the clean, sharp-nerved charm which used to distinguish the adventure romances of the late great Douglas Fairbanks Sr. A shade less inspired than Fairbanks as an athlete, Cagney is an even better actor. He cannot even put a telephone receiver back on its hook without giving the action special spark and life. Moreover, liberal Actor-Producer Cagney is a man of sense and good will. He takes care, even in the midst of this angry bit of patriotism, to show that there are honorable and anti-militaristic Japanese as well as the sort who took the nation...
...unconditional? And, in its concentration on the gumbatsu, is this campaign aiming for a surrender that would preserve the emperor system, in a Japan untouched by war except for air attacks? Few men who have fought in the Pacific would welcome any peace that let Japan off the hook this time, still possessed of its insane national-religious dream of world destiny, still able to try again in another 20 years...
...hook-a stunt, novelty, contest or other device intended to produce tangible evidence of audience attention...
...destined to handle at least one more big newsbreak before he quit, told hastily gathering newsmen to stand by. The President, he said, is preparing a proclamation. "Will it be about V-E day?" he was asked. "Not exactly," he answered, "but something like it." Radiomen were told to hook up their microphones at the White House for the reading of the proclamation...