Word: hooks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clock of the appointed morning just as the refugees from Paris' nightclubs met the first milkman in the streets. The two scholars were equipped with a pink parasol and a walkie-talkie. At the foot of the obelisk, Parisian firemen stood ready with a hook & ladder. The younger of the pair, Mario Fabre, climbed to the top of the monolith; the other, François Guinet-Chaplain, established himself at its base. The hours went by. A crowd began to gather. At 10 o'clock the crowd was thick in front of a receiving set which had been...
...like it or not, Reuther finally had to go along. Reuther could only hope that Ford would find a way to take him off the hook. This week, as the paralysis of Ford's River Rouge complex threatened to make thousands of other Ford workers idle, Reuther suggested, and Ford agreed, to resume negotiations...
...things had turned out, hasty Happy Chandler seemed to be as much on the hook as Lippy Leo had appeared to be when Heckler Boysen caught up with him in short centerfield...
...Mother's Day, a Manhattan store offered the "all-in-one shears, a many-armed gadget which can be used as a fish sealer, bottle opener, nutcracker, screw-cap opener, hook extractor, pliers, screw driver, or hammer...
...crucial in the Atlantic Pact), and not the United States, where anti-Russian and anti-communist feeling is already much too intense. If Schlesinger wished to announce his disapproval of the Conference, he had far better have done so as an individual than through the dubious medium of Professor Hook's dummy organization...