Word: hook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Freshmen captain Dick Hook will face the toughest test of his wrestling career, in a meet which will draw competitors from among the best of the college and club wrestlers in New England...
CHARLES RUFFIN HOOK JR., 38, vice president in charge of personnel of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co., to be Deputy Postmaster General. Son of a wealthy Ohio industrialist (now board chairman of Armco Steel Corp.), handsome Charlie Hook married a Morgan heiress, is a popular and ornamental member of Cleveland society...
Richard W. Hook of Medford and Dudley, will captain the freshman wrestling team. Hook is undefeated at 157 in college competition, and wrestled two years on the Exeter varsity...
Three opening pins by the lightweights gave the freshman wrestlers a fast start. Herrera at 123, Keating at 130, and Burnaman at 137, won by falls. Cole's match at 147 was nearly as decisive a win, 6 to 1, over his Tufts opponent. Brawley at 157 and Hook at 167 both pinned...
...shipping companies. In theory, these were the helpless victims in the domain of President Joe Ryan of the A.F.L.'s International Longshoremen's Association. In fact and testimony, most of the witnesses turned out to be men who would dangle a dollar on the end of a hook for either bait or payoff, whichever was in order. The basis they laid: racketeering runs rampant on the waterfront because nearly everyone there complacently accepts corruption as a matter of course...