Word: hooks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reasoning, I picked a fundamental trade in one of the defense industries most likely to be doing business as usual when the show is over and the monkey dead. I am a boilermaker's helper at Sun Oil in Marcus Hook, Pa. I like it ... and I seem to have some talent for it. I've lost some fat around the waist and between the ears. And I'm a little proud of the modest bit I'm doing in our war effort...
...also been-on his own hook and at risk of his job-the No. 1 drumbeater for the all-out war expansionists in their fight with OPM slowpokes. In the days when OPM's Bill Knudsen assured President Roosevelt that production was 100% good, and Virginia's tart Senator Harry F. Byrd shouted that it was 100% bad, Coy knew that Byrd was closer to the truth-and said so all the way to the top. For this he went deep into the doghouse for a while, but he finally won. OPM gave way to WPB; the expansionists...
...duty there could not find the right switch (there were two switches but both had been disconnected). Donning gas masks, men tried to get into the smoke-filled salon, discovered that the gas masks did not work, retreated, gasping for air. An officer found some hose, frantically tried to hook it on to a valve, failed because the valve was a French type and the hose had a U.S.-type fitting. He found another hose already hooked up-no nozzle. The ship's power failed. The ship's water pumps and hoses quit...
There are some plausible clues that Hitler is planning another Crete in the west: 1) the whole German battle fleet, now a formidable weapon, is assembled between the Hook of Holland and Trondheim, Norway; 2) the British claim (probably extravagantly) that half the fighter strength of the Luftwaffe is drawn up near the invasion coast; 3) Germany's best Field Marshal, Gerd von Rundstedt, has been sent to France; 4) Petain is out and Laval and his Anglophobes are in; 5) British experts say that Germany has been building gliders and transports all winter long. Perhaps these things...
...technical knockout with his opponent reeling on the ropes. Except for the second period, during which Sauer rallied and held a slight edge, Bullitt consistently out-boxed him and handed out terrific punishment with a left jab to the body, right cross to the head, and final left hook routine...