Word: hook
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such multiple-problem cases inevitably bring CLAO into close contact, and sometimes conflict, with social agencies. One social worker warned CLAO not to give juveniles the impression that they can "always get off the hook by going to CLAO...
...Broadway in 1962, is supposed to be a comedy about momogamy in American life. The heroine, an overdecorated middle-aged man-eater (Rosalind Russell), arrives at a Caribbean resort with her nixed of kin: a husband (Jonathan Winters), dead for a decade, who hangs taxidermically immortalized on a coat hook in her clothes closet, and a son (Robert Morse), arguably alive, who at 25 still sucks his thumb and sleeps in a set of Dr. Denton drop-seat pajamas. Forbidden by Mamma to leave the suite or even answer the telephone, the son is delightfully alarmed to discover that...
...simmers down to melancholy and despair, possibly induced by the "death of God" he keeps talking about, or by revisiting the Central European town from which he had fled as a refugee, or by both. In Act III, he finally hangs himself on a meat hook in the back kitchen of his London delicatessen. The prevailing lack of cheer is not noticeably alleviated by the play's billing as "a new comedy...
When a taller opponent is bending over with arms draped loosely in front of him,. Naylor pounces. He steps in, hooks one arm (see pictures), reaches across the man's front to hook the other arm, then falls back. Naylor's leg arches his opponent onto his back, and his arms remain hooked for a deadly pinning combination...
Hall replaced rugged Bill McBride for a while--now they get about equal playing time. Both like to operate in the center: Hall has a sweet hook, McBride prefers to crash the offensive boards...