Word: hooks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Hook had the last word. Said he: "If John Rankin would resign his seat, I'd be happy to go with him-for the good of the country." Rankin, for once, held his tongue...
...Congressional Record read "goddamned liar" before the words were stricken from it, but Hook swore he had not used profanity...
...party several years ago at the Shoreham Hotel, Hook, flattened the late Representative P. L. Gassaway with one punch...
Slammin' Sammy Snead cussed his corset and his hook. Without his corset, he wouldn't be playing golf at all; even with it, his lame back (slipped vertebra) needed two weeks of rest in every six. His hook off the tee continually landed him in tall grass, behind trees. Yet crowd-drawing, drawling Sammy had somehow managed to stand the winter circuit troupe on its par-cracking ear. Ever since his 26-month hitch in the Navy, the once temperamental Samuel Jackson Snead had played with a brand new and compelling confidence...
...under par-put him seven strokes up on Nelson, who came from nowhere to finish second. It also gave him a five-four lead over Nelson in the winter winner's race. Any golfer who could do that required no sympathy for his bad back and worse hook...