Word: hooking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...invasion coast, from the Hook of Holland to the Breton Peninsula, hums and crackles like a great anthill with the Germans' building and rebuilding. Workmen, slave and free, throw up great strong points of concrete and steel. The spirit of the great Fritz Todt, who built the wondrously interlaced strong points in the unused Westwall, lies over the oppressed land. German gunners stand at their stations in fortress and foxhole, ready to spin the threads of their fire into the tightly woven fabric of resistance to invasion. British bombers and fighters pluck the threads and blast the weavers, whipping...
Already familiar to College and short-wave audiences for his lectures on propaganda and current affairs, Carl J. Friedrich, professor of Government, will speak to the nation Sunday afternoon over a countrywide radio hook...
...Annapolis he had been fullback on the football team, and the midshipmen had given him the nickname he still carries: "Old Hookem." (On the gridiron, where he was cool and harddriving, the midshipmen used to shout: "Hook 'em, Ghormley! Hook 'em!") In the classroom he had an air of amused disinterest, but he wore on his blouse the gold star of the distinguished cadet, was graduated twelfth in his class...
...Jersey, since 1764, Atlantic coastwise mariners have navigated by the gleam of the Sandy Hook lighthouse. Once in 1776 a U.S. Army captain smashed the light to hamper the movements of British ships. Last week, for the second time in 178 years, the dimout regulations doused the light again...
...relay the ball in to the third baseman, whose hurried throw to the plate was wild. Fidler, on his knees a quarter of the way down the third base line lunged at the ball, and in one motion grabbed it and put it on Heath, who was attempting to hook-slide around him, for the out that proved to be the crusher...