Word: fishhooks
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...quite literally with a bang. The accident took place in 1999 on a deserted road in Western Australia, where the eminent art critic, author and television personality (The Shock of the New, Goya) was making a TV series on his native country. Thanks to a passing Aborigine named Joe Fishhook, Hughes survived the crash. So did the three men in the car with which he collided head-on. Because it appeared that Hughes may have strayed over the center line, he was prosecuted for the crash (he got off lightly), sued by the prosecutor for defamation (he settled) and skewered...
GETTYSBURG, Pa.—The lights on the map flashed and darkened. A line of blue dots formed a fishhook curve as the red lights advanced. I was sitting in a darkened room as the battle played out in front of me. “In what many historians regard as the bloodiest fighting of the entire war…” a recorded narrator intoned. We watched the red lights blink towards the blue lights, hover, and fall back. Three days. And 50,000 casualties.The blonde woman in front of me shook her head. The narrator moved...
...arrested immediately after the shooting and arraigned on Wednesday, is an animal-rights activist and long-term member of an environmental group that legally challenges farmers who seek to expand their operations. A principled vegan who once told an interviewer he couldn't abide the cruelty of baiting a fishhook, Van der Graaf lived in the small town of Harderwijk with his wife and three-month-old baby. "He was not given to jokes or eccentricities," says Caroline Hoogendijk, a director of the Dutch Veganism Association who worked closely with Van der Graaf. Wien van den Brink, head...