Word: hooks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pilot Martin, a 26-year-old ex-Navy flyer, confessed to an almost incredible tale of carelessness and poor judgment. He had taken off from Foynes, Eire, 3,600 lbs. overloaded, with two extra passengers aboard, on his own hook, because some of his fares were babies "and they couldn't weigh very much." As the Sky Queen headed west into wind and ice, he kept no systematic check on his fuel consumption, let his crew stand watches as they...
...October, De Gaulle was in the tower which he uses for a study, playing solitaire. De Gaulle snapped the radio on occasionally for early election returns, but went to bed at 2 o'clock with no clear idea of the results and left his telephone receiver off the hook. Next morning he got congratulatory calls from people who had been trying to get in touch with him all night...
Communists demanded her resignation as mayor, besieged her home, picketed the town hall. One day an agile comrade; threw a right hook past a policeman's shoulder to Renée's Grecian nose, altering its shape somewhat. Her sponsors whisked her to a refuge. But she would not resign...
...wonders if it "isn't like punching the heavy bag. The Colonel is in the direct line of Dickens' Colonel Diver of the Rowdy Journal and of Elijah Pogram, who 'Defied the world, sir-defied the world in general to compete with our country upon any hook; and devellop'd our resources for making war upon the universal airth...
...often. Two years ago the fire department allied with the municipal police fought a pitched battle with the Virginia boys and the state troopers. Routed at the end, the firefighters lost their clothing and trucks to a rioting band of fraternity men after responding to a false signal. Hook and ladder in nearby Crozet, more intrepid than the Charlottesville smoke eaters, can still be summoned in an emergency...