Word: hook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What was the Old Mahatma up to? One rumor that swiftly went the rounds (though Rickey kept mum): he was bound for Pittsburgh, to start rebuilding that dismal, last-place disappointment. Rickey took his phone off the hook to avoid questions. A "source," speaking for him as "spokesmen" sometimes speak for U.S. Presidents, announced that, at 69, Rickey wanted to sell out "in order to get a little security in this troubled world...
...quite vulnerable to passes. The fact that the backers-up played close to the line, and indeed one of them would move in to form a seven-man line, meant that the defensive halfbacks would frequently reach a Dartmouth receiver just as he caught the ball on a button-hook pass. The defense was sucked completely out of position on Dartmouth's second touchdown; a 12-year-old could have caught Clayton's pass and scored, for there was not a Holy Cross defender within 29 yards...
...difficult to see how an announcer can broadcast a 15-round fight and not use once such terms as uppercut, bobbing, right or left cross, and hook. And it was indeed unfortunate that the Pabst people could not have acquired the services of Bill Corum or Sam (no relation) Taub...
...statute on the Cambridge books which prohibits parking after 2 a.m. . . . the Police Department defends the statute on the grounds that cars on the street at night are a hazard to the Fire Department . . . but the Fire Department has pointed out that it can get its hook and ladders through any streets where parkers obey the daytime parking signs . . . There is only one group of people who stand to gain from the parking law, and they are the proprietors of the local garages and parking lots...
...Judge Goddard: "... a magnificent old American bald eagle with two white nests of hair sprouting from long ears, curving quizzical eyes, an imperial hook of nose, and a huge clapper of a mouth...