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  • Michelle Gorgone and Lisa Kosglow, left out of the top places in World Cup races earlier in the week, finished 1-2 in the parallel giant slalom, with Stacia Hookum fourth.

    USATODAY.com - Pikus-Pace slides to third World Cup win, weekly honor 2004

  • Three of his early novelettes (1913), "Hookum Hai," "For the Salt He Had Eaten," and

    Materials Toward a Bibliography of the Works of Talbot Mundy Bradford M. [Editor] Day

  • TOLD IN THE EAST Hookum Hai A Blood-red sun rested its huge disk upon a low mud wall that crested a rise to westward, and flattened at the bottom from its own weight apparently.

    Told in the East Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920

  • Well -- there's more than one sort of ` Hookum hai! '

    Told in the East Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920

  • If he says ` Hookum hai! 'you all let go the rope, and fall flat.

    Told in the East Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920

  • "Hookum hai!" he screamed suddenly, waving his sound hand upward, and bringing it down suddenly with a jerk, as though by sheer force he was blasting them.

    Told in the East Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920

  • Let him tell them that when he says 'Hookum hai!' my men'll loose his neck straight away, and fall down flat.

    Told in the East Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920

  • "You and I are going to turn in our accounts of how we've worked out this ` Hookum hai 'business, my friend!" he told him.

    Told in the East Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920

  • "You and I are going to turn in our accounts of how we've worked out this ` Hookum hai 'business, my friend!" he told him.

    Told in the East Talbot Mundy 1909

  • "Hookum hai!" he screamed suddenly, waving his sound hand upward, and bringing it down suddenly with a jerk, as though by sheer force he was blasting them.

    Told in the East Talbot Mundy 1909

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