Hooches [noun]

By hooch-time we had found a secure path to the sea-ice, one hundred and eighty feet below.

All hell was fixing to bust loose in there, and he, Peter de Hooch, was right next to it.

"Because a half is eight point two eight per cent heavier than a hole," said de Hooch.

Something in the man's voice made de Hooch turn his head away from the periscope's eyepieces.

One of the men shook de Hooch gently, awakening him in the middle of a snore.

If de Hooch didn't act calm, if he didn't go about things just right, Willows might very likely go over the line into total panic.

The man was no longer wearing a hood, but de Hooch couldn't tell if it was Willows or himself.

De Hooch had already seen Willows in trouble three times, and each time, the reaction had been the same: near panic.

De Hooch kept on running, his breath rasping loudly in the confines of the fishbowl helmet.

If he hadn't known the man so well, de Hooch would have verbally blasted him where he stood.