Word: hook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Left Hook. In the event of war, India's generals do not expect the Chinese to strike their main blow across the Himalayas-although they are taking no chances. They expect instead a Chinese left hook through Burma and Assam towards Calcutta. Short of war, the generals agree that infiltration is the danger...
Read Sidney Hook in New York Times Magazine...
...program was aired by a two-way hook-up between Boston and Minneapolis. The network awarded the winning team $500 for their school...
...Hook...
...missing a lot of earnest punches. Then Rocky changed tactics, shortened his blows, began pummeling LaStarza's body with lefts and rights. The challenger's guard sank slowly, his retreating feet got heavier, his counterpunches weaker. It ended in the eleventh, when LaStarza, slowed by a left hook, got in the way of a sharp right, and was driven sprawling through the ropes. LaStarza was vertical again, though little else, after a count of nine. The referee had to stop the fight...