Word: hook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Face Saved. Next, Vissering went into direct competition with his rival, Jaccoponi. He set up his own stevedoring company. The nub was 25 resolute anti-Jaccoponi dockers, all of them fast men with a fist or a bale-hook. Under protection of Italian-not American-soldiers, they unloaded two ships. Restless rank & filers in the Red union, with nothing to do but 'watch, began nudging their leaders. Thereupon Jaccoponi, to save his face, put on his businessman's hat, made a deal with Vissering: Jaccoponi would set up a subsidiary to his monopoly to handle the U.S. Army...
Washington, No. 8, which earlier in the season bowled over three Big Ten teams in a row, currently boasts a 17-3 record. Washington, defending Pacific Coast Conference champion, should win easily again this year behind the hook-shot artistry of Bob Houbregs, 6 ft. 7 in. center who leads the P.C.C. in scoring with 17.3 points a game. Attendance...
...hook and ladder trucks reached the quadrangle within a few minutes, and quickly had the fire under control. By 8:15 the dormitories were declared safe. As residents of both dorms went in to breakfast, however, some girls expressed regret that they had been rudely awakened for so small a fire...
...policy which Lord Salisbury once characterized as "floating lazily downstream, occasionally putting out a diplomatic boat hook to avoid collision." A Socialist who had held high position in the Foreign Office said to an American correspondent last week: "We were like you once. When things really get tough, you just say, 'Oh well, a hundred million dollars will settle it.' In our case, it was cruisers. Some of the most awful mistakes were made, but then we would send around a couple of cruisers...
Forward Harry Sacks scored consistently with his foul-lane hook shot, collecting 24 points to top the Yardlings. Guard Paul Shaw placed second with 23 points...