Word: hook
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...voters in Selma, Ala., and environs, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. deliberately set out to get himself and his followers arrested. He succeedd spectacularly, spending four days in jail himself and getting nearly 3,500 others booked by Alabama's remarkably stupid law enforcement officials, who fell hook, line and sinker for his bait. Toward week's end, King was accurately able to state in a national fund-raising "Letter from a Selma, Ala., Jail" newspaper advertisement that "there are more Negroes in jail with me than there are on the voting rolls...
Three engine companies, two hook-and-ladder trucks, one rescue squad, and a deputy chief of the Cambridge Fire Department rallied to save Quincy House from major damage yesterday evening after flames crept through a three-cushion couch in a sixth-story room...
...tube who wrote your article better book a little more; a B is not a B, it is a bomb. But on the whole, I would give him a hook plus...
...floodgates opened. Swinging wide to the left, Fullback Brown took a pitchout, cut back, and churned 46 yds. to the Baltimore 18. (Murmured one spectator: "Put a cape on him, and he's Superman.") Quarterback Ryan was a little nervous about calling the next play-a tricky "hook-post" pass to Flanker Gary Collins behind the goal posts. On the same play five times this season he had bounced the ball off the crossbar. This time he hit Collins on the chest and heaved a sigh of relief. "Whew!" said Ryan later. "For a while I thought for sure...
...look as if the New Yorkers were going to utilize their advantage. They brought the ball slowly down court and didn't work it in for a short shot. With time rapidly running out, Rochester guard David Deutsch dribbled across the top of the foul circle and fired a hook shot "from behind his ear," as one observer...