Word: hooks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which had been set up in type in advance. Many U.S. newspapers were similarly forearmed, and slip-ups were few. But on Hearst's San Antonio Light, a Mexican copy boy who could not read English clipped the news flash off the teletype and hung it on a hook at the news desk, where it lay unnoticed for 20 minutes. The news hit the Oklahoma City Times just as it was tearing up its forms to report a tornado...
...Elbe. By this week it was clear where all the Allied armies were heading. Field Marshal Montgomery had thrown a left hook aimed for the North Sea and the submarine bases at Emden, Wilhelmshaven. He had columns within shelling range of Bremen. He punched his right hard & fast toward Hamburg, the biggest German port. If the Germans in the north counted upon a last stand in Denmark, or possible flight through it to Norway, Monty might soon scramble their ideas...
...muddy-brown) and floated on a board past the ancient German city of Regensburg. "Ja, das ist ein schönes Schwein!" wailed the hungry, war-worn customers. Even the portly mayor of Regensburg forgot his civic dignity, flopped on his belly, and lost his umbrella trying to hook the pig. "Swim after it, drag it ashore-and report to me!" roared Nazi Gauleiter Stoltz. But the pig was deaf to Hitlerism. It only stepped ashore ("as one coming home from a casual . . . voyage") when the board grounded on a tiny, sandy island in mid-Danube. Old Anton Fischer...
...were smudges of black smoke where heavy bombers were still beating up the target area. Suddenly, out of the smoke, the now bridgeless Rhine appeared, flowing placidly. In the lead transports gum-chewing paratroops were tense. From the jumpmaster in each plane came a curt command: "Stand up!" Then, "Hook up! . . . Stand in the door! . . . Go!" They went tumbling out, 15 men in ten seconds...
Since 1900, when Sapho got the hook for letting a cocotte be carried to her bedroom in a young man's arms, relatively few Broadway shows have been run off the boards. Last week, after a checkered career, another show joined the blacklist. For two months last fall Dorothy and Howard Baker's Trio struggled-because of its Lesbian subject matter (a young girl enslaved by a French woman professor and at length set free by her love for a young man)-to find a Broadway theater (TIME, Jan. 8). Finally lodged at the Belasco, it played there...