Word: hooking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...A.A.F.'s experimenters at Wright Field started working on the stunt four years ago. A plane dangling a nylon rope and a hook on the end of a long pole snatched 50-lb. dummies off the ground. Then a sheep was tried. The first one was hauled into the plane with its neck broken. The process was gentled until experimenters were finally ready to try the trick on a man. Lieut. Alex Doster volunteered...
...Right Hook. Jake Devers had fashioned his Strasbourg grip on the Rhine-and his opportunity to expand it-out of surprise and dash. Over the weeks of stalemate he had slipped the fresh, enthusiastic army of Major General Jean Delattre de Tassigny into position before Belfort: two French divisions, a colonial Spahi division, a battalion-plus of F.F.I...
...Left Hook. On the eighth day Delattre's Sherman tanks raced past the 78-ft.-long red granite Lion of Belfort (symbolic of its unyielding French defense in 1870-71). They speared into Mulhouse, turned north toward Colmar along the Rhine...
...Hodges. When Hodges took over, the First had two complicated plans to work out : 1 ) to slug in and carve a corridor for Patton's tanks to slip through, then hold the German counterattacks and keep the corridor open; 2) using its own armor, to swing a right hook to form the first trap for the German Seventh Army (TIME, Aug. 28). Hodges ran off these plans without raising his voice and with rare recourse to his spare vocabulary of profanity...
...rotary wing, shaped much like an ordinary maple seed, that twirls to earth without benefit of "umbrella" or rigging. The bulbous plastic container, hitched to the wooden blade, can hold 65 lbs. The rate of fall is slightly faster than a parachute's, but the "Sky Hook" is not subject to the wind drift that makes parachuting of supplies inaccurate from high (safe) altitudes...