Word: hooks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Students who study in foreign universities, work in reconstruction and cultural projects, or merely travel on their own hook are helping to "modify the critical international tensions of today," Duggan said...
Beer-sipping customers lifted their heads but slightly as a dozen firemen neatly dismantled one wall of the Harvard Garden Grill last night. Three trucks and a hook and ladder and converged on the tavern at 10:15 o'clock and close to 100 bystanders stood and watched...
...total of 170 or so plays). But Crisler doesn't use the single-wing exclusively for the power it was designed to produce. By lining up in a T, with an unbalanced line, and the quarterback up over center, Michigan freezes the defense with the threat of quick, hook passes into the flat...
...Chamber goes about its main job of luring in new businesses by 1) buttonholing virtually every bigwig who comes to town, and 2) never letting a prospect off the hook. For example, Chamber representatives first approached a Pennsylvania radiator company in 1933 with studies showing how it could make money in Los Angeles. Every year thereafter they came around to elaborate on their inducements. By 1946, some of the company's officers could no longer resist a trip west to look over possible sites. When they found a likely one, the Chamber arranged for them to buy it. Upshot...
...Barrie's Peter Pan, the hungry crocodile that had swallowed an eight-day clock went "tick., tick, tick, tick" loud enough to warn Captain Hook of its approach. The crocodile eventually got him anyway; defeated by Peter Pan, the pirate threw himself into the crocodile's waiting jaws...