Word: hook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With less than half a minute of the fight remaining, the battered, bleeding La Motta suddenly saw an opening, fired his first good salvo of the evening. A right hook caught Dauthuille flush on the jaw, gave ringside cameramen one of the finest knockout pictures of the season (see cut). Jake's sudden come-alive finish left some sportwriters unimpressed ("manufactured melodrama," one called it), but it saved Jake's title by the barest of margins: the fight had only 13 seconds to go when Dauthuille was counted...
...giant fish while Guide Mac-Ritchie tried to row the boat toward shore. The tuna pulled the boat twelve miles around St. Ann Bay before it was finally played out and beached itself. During the struggle, the 9-ft.-9-in. fish bent the 3-in., U-shaped steel hook into an L. But the hook held...
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...TIME'S Aug. 7 intrepid angler who caught "both fish & foul" [he claimed that a fish grabbed one hook and a bat the other...
Shouts & Affronts. The Senate rapidly dealt with three others. Michigan's Homer Ferguson objected to the nomination of a brash, left-winging ex-Congressman named Frank Hook to the Motor Carrier Claims Commission. Hook had run against Ferguson for the Senate in 1948. "The nominee is lacking in capacity," said Ferguson. Down went Hook. Then there was Martin A. Hutchinson, an able Virginia lawyer nominated to the Federal Trade Commission. Hutchinson had run against Senator Harry Byrd in the 1946 primary-Byrd's first opposition in 21 years. Byrd told the Senate that he did not want Hutchinson...