Word: hops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vast runways. American Overseas Airlines' Berlin-bound DC-4 Eire fled past on its take-off with the blended snarl of its four engines reassuringly shattering the silence. Men on duty in the control tower watched it perfunctorily as it climbed and shrank from sight on its hop to Shannon, Eire...
...will lead to Princeton, N. H., this Saturday, as the University Travel Company at 18 Brattle Street announced yesterday that reservations are available for two weekend flights from Logan airport to New York, connecting at Pennsylvania Station for special trains to Palmer Stadium. Round trip tickets for the return hop can also be purchased...
...Part Cure. The Lexington cure is two-part: 1) withdrawal of the drug, accomplished in three days, during which the patient's agony is mitigated by less harmful dope; 2) the psychological phase -finding out what caused the patient to go on the hop, and removing the cause. If phase No. 2 is not successfully completed, relapse is almost certain (29% of Lexington's present patients are repeaters). Volunteers may leave whenever they choose, but are told that if they leave before six months, they have wasted their time...
...miner who could "touch with his hand where the corn is green," the egocentric murderer of "Night Must Fall" is a good brain stifled by its environment. But unlike the poor laborer who is given educational outlet for his intelligence and goes on to Oxford, Dan, the former bell-hop, sailor and local lothario, takes to strangulation and ends on the gallows. Both are Welsh; both are Emlyn Williams; both are, as Dan himself expresses it, a piece of chocolate "with a soft center...
...around, he practically put his gloved hand in the batter's face, his right arm snapped through with as much wrist English as though he were cracking a blacksnake whip. The Yankee lead-off man hardly saw the first one that buzzed by with a full two-inch hop...