Word: hooks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...object to the so-called cable-car picture [TIME, Feb. 10]. The artist has fettered this poor thing with an overhead trolley wire and trolley pole. There is even a hook-shaped device on the front of this hermaphrodite for holding the trolley pole when not in use. . . . D. H. LEHMER Berkeley, Calif...
...easily. Everybody wanted Beau Jack to fight. The ex-shoeshine boy had pulled more cash customers ($1,400,000 in gate receipts) into Madison Square Garden in 18 main events than any other boxer. In the fourth round last week against Tony Janiro, Beau tried to duck a left hook, and his kneecap cracked again, in five places...
...useful term invented by Professor Hook...
...Allen, Chairman of the Rules Committee, threw in a plan of his own. Allen would give the little taxpayer a 20% cut, the big fellow less. Laughing fit to bust, Tennessee's Albert Gore gloated: "The Republicans are stuck in the mud of confusion and hanging on the hook of irresponsible promises...
...Sidney Hook, philosophy professor at New York University, has published in the current Partisan Review an article on "The Future of Socialism." He has some interesting points to make on the relationship between Communism and democracy, and especially on certain misconceptions about that relationship among one group of American "liberals." Some excerpts from Mr. Hook's article...