Word: hooks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mile cross-country trip, he had been content to jab steadily, pushing the champ off balance, until Franklin Roosevelt came out with his old haymaking right hook. (TIME, Oct. 2). Even then, Tom Dewey labeled his own slugging back at Oklahoma City a "digression." But that toe-to-toe digression had brought Republican cheers. Republican ringsiders, who had sat on their hands while Tom Dewey endorsed New Deal measures, clapped, shouted and sent telegrams, demanding more of the same. Next night, on his homeward journey to Albany, Dewey abandoned his previous objections to barnstorming, was still happily "digressing," making back...
...books Brooks has written since his recovery is a quality that had been missing from American literature since its greatest days. Brooks once wrote of Llewelyn Powys, who recovered from tuberculosis, that he was like a hare that had escaped the hunter, or a trout that had escaped the hook "and now exults in the sun-soaked earth and windswept water." The phrase is truer of his own writing. The mellow humor that pervades it and the good-natured approval of the people, of their work, their strivings, the pleasure in their triumphs, the sympathy with their struggles and hardships...
...until late in November. If the race is close, their 84 electoral votes may tip the scales of victory. And it is even mathematically possible-so the statisticians delightedly figured last week-that a final, hairline decision might be delayed even longer. The U.S. might actually hang on the hook of suspense until Rhode Island, with four electoral votes, counts its soldiers' ballots on Dec. 4, and North Dakota, with four...
Died. The Most Rev. Edward Joseph Hanna, 83, San Francisco's longtime (1915-35) labor-arbitrating Archbishop; in Rome, where he had lived since his retirement. Smooth-faced, hook-nosed Archbishop Hanna's active 20-year leadership in West Coast labor reform climaxed in 1934 when he was the Roosevelt-appointed Chairman of the National Longshoremen's Board which raised dockworkers' wages, granted them a 30-hour week...
...watching the quiet highway. A few cars went by, but no one stopped when they, waved. When the phone rang, Peter stood on tiptoe and managed to lift the receiver. But he could not quite speak into the mouthpiece and he finally let the receiver fall back on the hook...