Word: hooking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aims at filtering ideas and opinions from the top, through union leaders, intellectuals, government officials. Its lifeblood is a steady stream of free literary contributions from such heavyweights, high-priced or otherwise, as Hunter College President George Shuster, New York University Philosopher Sidney Hook, John Chamberlain, Max Eastman, Ferdinand Lundberg, the New York Times's Henry Hazlitt, Brooklyn College President Harry Gideonse, Lewis Mumford, Raymond Leslie Buell, William Green, Matthew Woll, Walter Reuther- some of whom would be outraged if they were called Socialists or leftists...
Hints for soldiers and sailors: 1) on long marches, they should hook their fingers in the shoulder straps of their packs, continually move hands and elbows, to be sure of good circulation and the ability to handle guns when they reach the front; 2) to protect their eyes from tiny fragments from land mines, they should wear Plexiglas goggles or masks; 3) to avoid the concussion of depth charges, swimming sailors should float on their backs...
...extreme end of the box is a little man with a hook nose, sunken cheeks, deep sunken eyes. He is French and he wears a string of medals. He looks like an Egyptian mummy, except for the queer glitter in his colorless eyes. Another French officer is fat. His eyebrows slant upward. His normal complexion is purple-red-that of a man bursting with rage...
Mickey Walker, the "Toy Bulldog," used to be famed for the wicked left hook that made him middleweight and welterweight king of the '20s. Now he has shifted hands, changed to a gaudy right. The old master has become an artist, a painter of genuine oil paintings...
...crib, you had to buy other beds and furniture which I was only able to do which recently I got a letter from Sears that said, 'Kindly refer to this matter immediately or your salary will be garnisheed.' Well I had to get $14 by hook or crook to pay off that debt. Now I want to give you some of the Mayor's own figures, that out of 168,000 city employes in New York, 90,000 are in hock up to their ears...