Word: hooks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Saboteur Forster, 39, is a burly, hook nosed Yorkshireman who spent four weeks planning his Burmese masterpiece and nearly three years waiting for such a chance. Ever since the war's outbreak he had been in oil-rich hot spots, scheming their destruction: in Rumania's oilfields, where the Gestapo nabbed him (but had to release him because Rumania was neutral); in Iraq, when pro-Nazi Rashid Ali El-Gailani took over; in the Dutch East Indies, where he made mistakes he learned not to make a second time...
...into a story the meat of a conversation he had had with one of America's most prominent business figures, he did not even try to argue it past his researcher on his own say-so. He got the man at the other end of a three-telephone hook-up-read the statement to him-let his doubting Thomasina hear the okay with her own ears...
...Paunchy, hook-nosed Léon Daudet spent most of his life in a seriocomic clamor for the return of the House of Bourbon-Orleans to the throne of France. His prose style was a far cry from the gentle whimsy which brought fame to his father, Alphonse Daudet (Tartarin de Tarascon, Lettres de Mon Moulin, etc.). Léon Daudet's editorials in L'Action were slapstick smacks in which he called his enemies female camels, unfecund sows, burst dogs, humpbacked cats, circumcised hermaphrodites. In a courtroom squabble Daudet once screamed "liar" at an opponent so long...
Just Deserts. By this time Lieut. General Frank M. Andrews, commanding the Caribbean Defense, decided to crack down. He made an inspection flight over the northern Caribbean area, convinced startled British officials of Gough's complicity. But the slippery Gough was not easy to hook. He escaped. In the days of 17th-Century pirates he might well have outraced his pursuers to the nearby Republic of Honduras. But a Naval patrol plane overtook his boat, forced it to stop, and took over. It was believed the first time in history that an air crew became a prize crew...
Eventually Private Shearer got the equipment, persuaded ("for two cokes, a girl's phone number and my new black tie") three signal corps men to hook it up. The great hour and the great man arrived. Kaltenborn stalked to the microphone...