Word: hook
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Balaguer made it clear that he meant business, and that his country would make it on its own hook, not on U.S. aid. "We cannot live on alms," said Balaguer, "and be proud...
...court had posed the problem for itself in two earlier decisions, and last week, just before adjourning for the summer, it finally got itself off the hook. Neither the vague right to remain silent that had been recognized by Escobedo v. Illinois nor the stricter guidelines for police and prosecutors that had been laid down in Miranda v. Arizona, announced Chief Justice Earl Warren, would be applied retroactively...
There is today no agreed definition of what a hero is. Philosopher Sidney Hook defines a hero as an "eventmaking" man who changes history, like Churchill or Lenin, as distinct from the merely "eventful" man, like Lyndon Johnson (so far) or Charles de Gaulle. "De Gaulle would be an eventmaking man," says Hook, "if he had the power." Yet there are many heroes who did not change events, or who had heroism thrust upon them through accident...
...girl consumes five drinks in 20 minutes at one. Robert B. Woodward drinks a moderate amount of champagne at a press conference after winning the Nobel Prize in chemistry. Julian S. Schwinger, who has won the Nobel Prize in physics, stays home all day with his phone off the hook...
...Mountain States Ranch School, Inc., stretches over 12,000 acres of six ranches in southeastern Wyoming's rolling Centennial Valley, 20 miles west of Laramie. Snow-capped mountains fringe the sky to the west. Brown trout leap to the hook in the Little Laramie River, just outside classrooms in a rustic old building on the V-Bar Ranch. The 39 students live in a log bunkhouse that once served as a station on the stagecoach line. Supported by funds from Rancher Lyndon Johnson's war on poverty, the school pays each student $15 a week, charges no tuition...