Word: hooks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hence a fire alarm was turned in, and Cambridge Hook and Ladder was on the way before the true state of affairs became known...
...Apologies. Single-minded Henry Stimson makes no apologies for his yardstick, which actually was big enough to measure only one phase of the global war, and inadequate for calculating the political possibilities. Thus he scorns Churchill's preference for "the right hook," which Stimson contends was intended only as a war of attrition in Italy and the Balkans, but which could actually have changed the course of history in Central Europe...
...Hook." Molotov flatly rejected Marshall's demands that Russia stop taking reparations from current German production; he also refused any information on past Russian seizures in Germany. His tone was so aggressive that it seemed to leave no room for further talk. At a real conference, that would have been regretted. But in London last week, one U.S. delegation member sighed gratefully: "Molotov has taken us off the hook...
Stanley sees through Blanche's yarns and posturings at once. When he finds her snootily trying to wreck his marriage and slyly trying to hook his pal, he gets the goods on her and lets...
...Hollywood is a fisherman with an expensive rod," wrote Producer Dudley Nichols (Mourning Becomes Electro) in the New York Times, "and it will not sit all day and go bankrupt and bait its hook with what the fish don't want. And this fisherman has found [that] the abundant fishing is in the troubled waters of adolescence and all its concomitants-violence for the sake of violence . . . physical action for the sake of action . . . glamor that is not beauty, sex with a snicker. . . . Don't blame Hollywood for all this: blame yourselves...