Word: hooking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when I'm casting my hook...
...pals just gurgled and dis appeared under the water." In those early hours Rangers had gone ashore in LCTs under cover of darkness. At one point, atop a 200-ft. cliff, were six 155-mm. guns which could sweep the sea approaches. The Rangers shot a grappling hook to the top of the cliff. One of them climbed a rope hand over hand, carrying rope ladders which he made se cure. Up swarmed the Rangers; took the gun positions, knocked them out with TNT. Infantry. On the heels of the demolition units went the infantry. It was not announced...
...huddle and a fruitless search for their insurance policy, the amateur fire-sniffers voted 23 to 2 to let the place burn down. Someone, however, had already asked the local hose-and-axemen to "send a man over." He came, but he brought his friends: three engine companies, two hook-and-ladder trucks and one rescue squad. No smoke, no fire, obviously a false alarm. Whether or not the whole thing was a stunt to increase sales of the new Spring issue, which for the first time in years showed, signs of passing the figures of "The Embalmers Journal," Poon...
...decreed a national election on June 2-3. But everyone in the little Andean republic expected it to be a fraud. The Government had carefully exiled, outlawed or imprisoned the leaders of the opposing Democratic Front. It had strengthened its Carabinero (police) garrisons in the chief cities. By hook or crook it intended...
Coach Syd Cabot's efforts to coordinate the forward players in the scrummages proved their worth Saturday. Frank Garfield of the V-12 playing in the hook position, flanked by Bob Kennedy and Don Hodge, also of the V-12, was able to heel the ball out to the backs in some of the best scrummaging of the season...