Word: deked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...change paid off, as leading scorer Bill Hozack, the recipient of great passes from Hughes and Schuster, broke in alone on the power play and Bruin goalie Mike Laycock. A fake here, a deke there and it was 1-1 after...
This time he focuses on the street-level cops in pursuit of the small-time robbers. Deke Hunter, 31, is a burly plainclothes detective who would much rather be starring for the Red Sox. "Most guys," he explains, "can't hit a major-league curve. Turned out, I was one of them. Also a major-league fastball." Instead of fame and glory, Hunter has a laundry list of problems: a bad marriage and worse pay, a house full of worn-out appliances and a publicity-hound of a D.A. on his back. Worst of all, Hunter is stuck digging...
...Deke Hunter's case, the physical evidence he collects is much less important to the outcome than plea bargaining, defense shenanigans, tips and perjured testimony...
This steady torrent of dialogue creates some awkward moments. Conversations must be disassembled like Chinese boxes: " ' "My ex-wife," he said, "said the same thing," ' Locke said." At moments such as these, talk does indeed seem cheap. For all its laconic wit, The Judgment of Deke Hunter still teeters be tween the description of manners and the repetition of mannerisms. The characters are good fun to be around, but they never get more complicated than their last remark...
Even in his Houston hospital bed, Astronaut Donald "Deke" Slayton, 51, was flying high. Shortly after his July 24th return from the Apollo-Soyuz space flight, during which Slayton and fellow Crew Members Thomas Stafford and Vance Brand had inhaled poisonous fumes, doctors spotted a tiny lesion on Deke's left lung. Because of Slayton's age and past history as a chain smoker, a better than 50-50 chance of malignancy was predicted. "He's an extremely lucky man," said Dr. Charles Berry after announcing that Slayton's tumor was benign. Not only will Deke...