Word: hooks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high as 40 percent of the total 28-station potential radio audience, running into many millions, would be tuned into the football broadcast. Radio stations covering most of the major New Enkland cities, New York City and upstate, Philadelphia, and Baltimore will be included in the East Coast hook...
Labor assessed the damage. It had lost almost all of its stalwarts in the House-Washington's Hugh de Lacey, West Virginia's Matt Neeley, Michigan's Frank Hook, Pennsylvania's Mike Bradley and John Sheridan. Gone from the Senate would be such labor 100-percenters as Pennsylvania's Joe Guffey, Utah's Abe Murdock, Delaware's James Tunnell, Washington's Hugh Mitchell...
...report from Michigan means that Frank E. Hook, belligerent spokesman of labor, is probably headed for the ashcan...
...floor dusty, its walls dirty grey), three black gallows had been erected with more attention to numerology than to efficiency. The platforms were eight feet apart, stood eight feet above the ground, measured eight feet square. From each platform rose two heavy beams, supporting a heavy crosspiece with a hook for the rope in the middle. An inconspicuous lever served to open the traps. The space beneath the traps was hidden by curtains. 1:11 a.m. Two white-helmeted guards led Joachim von Ribbentrop from his cell down the corridor and across the courtyard. He walked as in a trance...
Last week Martha's Vineyard ended a month-long annual Striped Bass Derby. Cuttyhunkers, who once got their heads bashed if they dropped a hook in Vineyard waters (and vice versa), signed up confidently...