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Word: fishhooks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1941-1941
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Next, the Cansinos took a four-week engagement aboard one of California's notorious gambling ships off the Long Beach shore. That venture was a flop. Between acts, Eduardo fished off the ship, caught a fishhook in his finger and went to bed with an infection. Rita tried to carry the show alone, soon gave it up. "The management didn't think I had enough Spanish seductiveness," says she. "I was 15 at the time, and the only thing that really aroused me was food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: California Carmen | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

...same time last week that the Communist Party Line reacted to the Russo-German war by curling up like a fishhook to head in the opposite direction (see p. 13), the Communist press swept around a hairpin turn to take the same course. To the guffaws of capitalist reporters the Daily Worker's lead editorial, appearing on the morning Hitler invaded Russia, declared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Worker Turns Warrior | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

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