Word: hook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Heavyweight contender Rocky Marciano knocked out Bernie Reynolds with a terrific hight hook to the chin at 2:21 of the third round of their scheduled 10 rounder last night to make that Fair field. Conn boxer his 35th knockout victim in an unbeaten string of 40 fights...
...week saw a worse casualty: a farce called Hook 'n Ladder had a run of one night...
...took them for a boat ride, and showed them the best spot for fishing. One young lady refused to bait her hook with a live worm, and received instead an artificial lure. After the ride they went to a party where the cheer flowed so freely that five of the subjects developed wretched hangovers when Morton told them it was the morning after...
...canniest lead-off batter in baseball's history was busy at his favorite pastime: getting a free trip to first base. For 17 years in baseball, Stanky's hook-or-crook motto has been: "I don't care how I get on base." When an umpire once warned him against crouching too low at the plate in an effort to minimize his "strike zone," Stanky snarled: "Are you trying to tell me my business...
Included in the list of speakers are Pierre Emmanuel, famed French poet; Sydney Hook, professor of Philosophy at New York University; Albert Marre, director of the Battle Theatre; and Dr. Tara Chand, Indian Ambassador to Iran. Two well-known authors, Michael O'Donovan (Frank O'Connor) and Gilbert Seldes, will also be among the eight other speakers. Elliott, Carl J. Friedrich, professor of Government, and George La Piana. John H. Morison Professor of Church History, will be the Harvard participants...