Word: hook
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Clint Murchison Jr. holed up on the brothers' private Bahaman island and took the radiophone off the hook; John flew off to Paris. Other Texas financiers, who had stomped their boots in joy when the brothers toppled an Eastern millionaire, were downhearted. More than glory had disappeared with the Murchisons' defeat. A decline in the price of Alleghany from a 1961 high of $15.50 per share to $10.63 at present, and their guarantees to make up any losses suffered by big proxy allies, had cost the Murchisons an estimated $18 million...
...seven rounds, Giardello pecked at the face that Robinson once promised "ain't nobody gonna muss this up." Robinson covered up and clinched. A left hook bounced Ray to the canvas for a six-count in the fourth. The referee graciously called it a slip. With three rounds to go, Sugar Ray desperately attacked, but his punches had no sting and the officials' cards were unanimous: 49.43, 48-45, 47-43-all for Giardello. In his dressing room, while flunkies fanned his flab, Ray Robinson grimaced sadly: his $14,500 purse had been attached by federal taxmen...
...maddened bull. Clay was the contemptuous matador-casually eluding Cooper's rushes, sticking his chin out, daring Cooper to hit him. Then it happened. "Clay is down!" screamed the BBC announcer. "Cooper has downed him! Oh, a beautiful punch there!" The "beautiful punch" was a sucker left hook; its chances of landing must have been 1,000 to 1. But land it did, flush on Clay's jutting jaw. Eyes glazed, Clay tumbled backward onto the ropes. The referee began counting, and the crowd hoarsely took up the chant: "One, two, three, four, five"-and then the bell...
...bitter spectator swung at him. Clay ducked and grinned: "I'll take my pistol to you." In his dressing room, Cassius rubbed cold cream into his tender nose, vainly examined it in a mirror. "I've never had a bloody nose before," he said. "That left hook-I've never been hit so hard by anyone...
...Morocco stood casting alone for trout in an icy stream. Hassan II enjoyed good luck, which was not surprising since no one else was allowed to fish the well-stocked reserve at the royal resort of Ifrane. Nor were there any messy chores. No sooner would the King hook another prize than five servants rushed to remove the wriggling catch from the royal line...