Word: hook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Smith scored quick baskets on a hook shot and a driving lay-up. Two foul shots by Ambie Redmond and one by Gerry Murphy widened the Crimson's lead. Princeton's Kurrus fouled out and Cooper was hampered by four personal fouls...
...most Americans, the phrase "built like a Mack truck" conveys a feeling of strength and solidity. Founded by three machinist-blacksmiths and wagonmakers in 1900, Mack Trucks, Inc. made the first gas-driven bus (for sightseeing in Brooklyn's Prospect Park), the first motor-driven hook & ladder. Mack soon became the leader in the heavy truck industry; year after year its earnings were good, its dividends fat. But in 1949 the oldest truckmaker in the U.S. no longer seemed to be built like a Mack. Sales were well down from 1947's peacetime peak of $124 million...
...found wanting by that perverse minority of posterity that may still read books. Carol Kennicott is still with us, fighting her hopeless battle against the village virus in many a drowsy hamlet still untouched by TV. Elmer Gantry now brays at us from the loudspeaker over a national hook-up . . . And in some hidden laboratory, the incorruptible young Dr. Arrowsmith is now busy tracking down the clue to cancer or polio...
...this time the AP's New York office, smelling a good feature, had routed the story over its transcontinental B-Wire, a teletype hook-up that reaches newspapers and radio stations all the way to Los Angeles. More than 100 papers and radio stations used the story. Some played it straight, 'HARVARD SEEN DRAFT SOURCE,' some as a gag, 'MOM WANTS SIMPERING HARVARDS IN SERVICE.' Public relation to the "Radcliffe Mother" was quick and active...
Although the Indiana University Medical Center has conducted a series of "telephone seminars," this was the first in which outstanding doctors in other parts of the country participated by telephone hook-up. The seminars are designed to help rural doctors unable to attend postgraduate training sessions at medical centers...