Word: hook
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brock races for the foul line, straight-arms a caddie, and plows over for the touchdown. Joe Namath fakes to a Ferrari and hook-slides into the 14th green. And here comes Billie Jean King, riding home another long shot...
...instead to kindly old Miss Elizabeth T. Droppers at the main reference desk. If she can be convinced that your motives are pure, she will take from its secret hook the key to the XR cage, disappear into a distant elevator, and reemerge eventually with the juicy morsel. After a stern warning not to mark any pages or remove any pictures, the forbidden fruit is yours to enjoy for as long as you like--provided you don't try to take it out of the main reading room...
...Harvard halfback reportedly asked the coaches to hook up a television set on the bench...
Into this precarious and primitive world bursts Charlie Hook (Dirk Bogarde), Mother's former husband and therefore the children's putative parent. Charlie is the classic cad; he gulls the kids with razzle-dazzle and big talk, swindles them out of their savings, and fills their mother's house with booze and popsies. The climax comes when Charlie puts the house up for sale, profanes their devotions, and triumphantly vilifies mother...
Three fire engines and a hook-and-ladder raced to a Radcliffe dormitory last night to put out a fire...