Word: hooks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hull, and as there would be hundreds of them they could hardly hope to escape detection. . . . They would cover so much sea area that our outpost vessels must run into them." The Guardian took comfort in the belief that the harbors at Boulogne, Calais, Zeebrugge and the Hook of Holland are so clogged with war debris as to be useless...
...regular reader of your Letters, I have recently gone out of my way to do some canvassing of public opinion in the Rocky Mountain region on my own hook. . . . The almost unanimous opinion of those to whom I have talked seems to be as follows...
...Willkie-Before-May-11-1940-club : 1) Russell ("Mitch") Davenport, gaunt, earnest journalist-philosopher who quit his job as managing editor of FORTUNE to devote himself to this man; 2) Oren Root Jr., young New York law clerk, who formed a Willkie-For-President club on his own hook and $150; 3) Charlton MacVeagh, a G.0.P. contact man who drafted himself...
...President of the U. S. is a big man, huge-shouldered and long-armed, with sausage-size fingers on his freckled, hairy hands. His greying hair is thin, little hollows dwell on his massive temples, brown shadows sit under his deep, narrow-set eyes, and two big seams hook down from his clear-cut nose to make grim parentheses around his mouth...
...nowhere until July 1939, when Railway Express Agency, seeking to formalize its monopoly of the business, suddenly asked CAA for a certificate of convenience and necessity as an air carrier. Apprehensive, the air lines protested, were joined by Grover Loening in an able brief on his own hook. Result: Examiner F. A. Law recommended the application be refused...