Word: hook
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Practical. A potato-faced pug, noted mainly for his high threshold of pain and his mastery of the "upper-cup"-a left hook to an opponent's private parts-Chuvalo was ranked tenth among the World Boxing Association's top ten heavyweights. True, he had never been knocked down in 47 pro fights, but he had lost eleven, including three of the last eight-to Floyd Patterson, Ernie Terrell and an Argentine named Eduardo Corletti. Sportswriters called the fight "the mismatch of the decade"; bookmakers installed Clay as the 1-to-7 favorite-and then refused to take...
...outreached by three inches, Chuvalo was totally practical. "I am a rough fighter, bordering on the dirty," he admitted. "I have to overpower Clay, wear him down, run him into the ground." In the first round, he rifled a left at Clay's kneecap and followed with a hook to the groin. He then grabbed hold of the champion's neck with one glove, whaled away at Clay's kidneys with the other...
...Captain Hook." Merrick's waves come in all sizes. The tsunami is terrifying. Says a man who survived it: "He is convulsed. He goes purple. The vein in his forehead stands up three-eighths of an inch. And the hatred in his eyes!" He cuts up his victim "with a tongue you could shave with." He fires people left and right. Sometimes he even throws things. Sometimes people throw things back. Last December, when Merrick flew off the handle and fired Director Tony Page for not making cuts in Inadmissible Evidence, Actor Nicol Williamson threw a glass of beer...
...Your Brooklyn story [March 11] nauseated me. Brooklyn isn't Sheepshead Bay, Fort Hamilton, Flatbush, Bensonhurst, Canarsie and Coney Island. They're foreign. Brooklyn is Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Fort Greene, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Red Hook-places like that, where you can't get foot-long hot dogs or Marianne Moore, but where you can hear Latin-American music blasting all night, where Al Capone is a martyr, where you can buy licorice for a penny, where you can get the best malted milks in the world. "Only 1% of the kids are still dese, dem and dose types," says...
...physiological need for narcotics, however, is only one of the many things that hook a user. The two other major contributors are the user's psychological makeup and his conditioned behavioral pattern-the strong likelihood that a return to old haunts and old friends will ease the post-addict back into old habits. Cyclazocine has no psychological effects, but Jaffe and Brill wondered if it were not possible to use it to help break behavioral patterns. They decided to try it on outpatients on the theory that when an addict's surroundings led him to take dope...