Word: hook
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then Princeton guard Gary Walters hit on a hook, Bradley scored on a three-on-one break and on a hook. Brown added a jump shot, and the Tigers held a 24-29 lead with a chance to break clear. But Cazzie Russell and Buntin rapidly brought Michigan back...
Fighting in the 185 pound class, Eliot's Steve Crosby had lost the first two rounds to Steve Roper of Winthrop. With 45 seconds left in the last round, Crosby connected with a left hook to the nose, and followed up with a tremendous right to the chin that threw Roper back into the corner. Roper's guard fell, and Crosby buckled him up with another left and a right...
...First get into trouble. Hook the ball up against a tractor shed on the lefthand side of the fairway. Then try the Upside Down Shot, by reversing a No. 7 iron and swinging lefthanded. Then there is the Hanging Lie for those happy times when the ball nestles on the far lip of a trap; back to the pin, you scoop up the ball with a wedge, and flip it over your head onto the green. After that there's the Kneeling Shot. "For any distance from 180 yds. to 230 yds.," writes Hahn, "this shot is amazingly simple...
...making any money"), and went back to telling duffers the difference between a mashie and a niblick. To keep himself amused, he tried "a little hocuspocus" on the practice tee, and club members started showing up to applaud such antics as hitting two balls simultaneously, one with a hook, the other with a slice. Aha! thought Hahn, and hit the road as a trick-shot artist. In the 15 years since, Hahn has visited 37 countries, traveled 1,500,000 miles. Today, his income from exhibitions, movies, TV, books and newspaper columns runs to $100,000 a year...
...their deficits out of their own currencies, it would impose a stern fiscal discipline, curb deficit financing and do away with many of the excesses that lead to inflation and recessions. Among other things, it would force the U.S. to eliminate its balance-of-payments deficit quickly, by hook or by crook...