Word: hook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most gifted female athlete in the history of Pennsylvania's Radnor High School was a tall (5 ft. 7½ in.) brunette with a booming tennis serve and a fine basketball hook shot. After she left Radnor, the brunette became one of the best lyric-coloratura sopranos in the world. Last week a busload of teachers journeyed to Manhattan to cheer the school's most famous alumna in a new kind of starring role. Young (24), shapely (36-24-36) Soprano Anna Moffo was making her debut at the Met in Verdi's La Traviata...
...sunny day last July, Mechanic Billy Smith, 25, went on the job to reline a steel furnace at the U.S. Pipe & Foundry Co. in Decoto, Calif., south of Oakland. Overhead a giant hook dangled from a traveling crane. In a freak accident, the hook crashed down on Billy Smith's right leg and severed it just above the knee. For three hours and 35 minutes, Billy Smith's leg was kept with his body only by a two-inch-wide ribbon of skin...
...bachelor and a pudgy 64, and four-times-wed Post Publisher Dorothy Scruff, a slim 56. But anyone who swallowed the Post's heavily scented lure last week in the hope of finding a spicy journalistic feast was doomed to disappointment. The flavor was all in the hook...
...fable for both children and adults, Peter Pan. As Peter, who has from Maude Adams to the present always been played for some reason by a woman, Miss Harris was captivatingly pixyish. Eric Portman might have brought more bravado to the traditional double role of the Father and Captain Hook. Ellis Rabb provided an unbeatably riotous Smee, an elaboration of the Starveling he did in Midsummer Night's Dream at Stratford a year ago. The production employed the original music of John Crooke, which Barrie himself had termed "delightful." And special equipment was set up to allow four characters...
...bell, Fullmer began to show a bewildering set of new tactics: in business as a Pier Six battler, he had turned Fancy Dan. Instead of ducking his head and plowing in, Fullmer danced tantalizingly beyond the reach of Basilio's deadly left hook. When Basilio swung, Fullmer countered with deft precision. When Basilio crowded him into a corner, Fullmer calmly retreated into a cocoon of arms and shoulders, then emerged to give better than he got. When Basilio clinched, Fullmer wrestled him about as he pleased and tossed in an occasional elbow for old time's sake...