Word: hook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson tried spiritedly in its last home game of the year, but Penn was just too good. Harry Sancks, who took a fierce pounding under the boards, led the Crimson with 16 points, many on deft hook shots. Bill Dennis counted 13 (including seven free throws). No one else topped seven...
...western Wyoming and eastern Idaho have been holding rugged races over the snow, and they wouldn't trade them for all the flamingos at Miami's Hialeah. Their cutter is usually an old, lightweight sleigh stripped of its seats and fitted with polished steel runners. The ranchers hook their cutters to a pair of fast horses, climb aboard, and light out full tilt down a quarter-mile straightaway of hard-packed snow. Some drivers sit on old orange crates, others stand Ben Hur fashion. Speed, not style is what counts...
...present, four freshmen grapplers are undefeated. They are Phil Burnaman at 137, Harry Brawley at 147, Captain Dick Hook at 157, and Charlie Harding in the 167 pound class...
...Crimson led by three points until the last three minutes, when Nunziato went into the game. Then he scored on a push shot, and Reisner, who was second high for B.U. with 12, made a hook and a layup to put the Terriers ahead...
...When Hook declares that our cultural life "suffers more from mediocrity than from frustration," he points up the real problem--to find a well spring of creative vitality. In the tensions of a nation not yet matured but propelled to leadership, the symposium suggests that such a source may be found...