Word: hook
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Andrew W. Cordier, got a private tour of the executive offices, finally crept back to Manhasset High. When the school told her about her son's "fantastic excuse" for cutting classes, John's mother called it "absolutely hilarious." But, she added sternly, no more going on the hook for John...
Lollo Is 101. By hook or by looks, Germans scramble avidly to get in on Madame Club's frequent gala nights. As many as 400 guests cram into the high-columned room (legal limit: 80), often sit two-deep at the candlelit, mirror-topped tables. House champagne costs only $4 a bottle, but vintage Moet & Chandon at $12 is swilled and spilled by the Jeroboam. The entertainment consists mostly of commercials. One recent evening Meat Packer (and charter member) Kurt Distler presented a program devoted to a new, deep-frozen brand of sausage. Status seekers come anyway...
Naturally, every foresighted bowling alley offers free lessons for children. In today's family-styled alley, parents no longer worry about evil companions, and the only childhood trauma is the gutter ball and a bad hook. And chances are that Mommy can straighten out these problems faster than Daddy...
Still the scientists keep trying. Supported by the Navy and the National Science Foundation, Dr. Bernard Vonnegut of Arthur D. Little, Inc. has been trying for five years to hook up with significant amounts of atmospheric electricity. At first he tried flying tethered balloons into the base of thunderheads. Nothing much happened. A tiny spark jumped from the end of the mooring wire, but never a thunderbolt followed, not even when lightning was flashing all around. Apparently the wire drew ions out of the nearby parts of the cloud, thus insulating itself from full-scale lightning...
...energy. Southeast of Carlsbad, N.Mex., a shaft has already been sunk 1,200 ft. in the ground to penetrate a thick formation of rock salt. From the shaft's bottom, a 1,116-ft. horizontal tunnel leads into the salt and curves back on itself in a giant hook. At the tip of the hook a small (5-kiloton) bomb will be exploded in December. If all goes well, the explosion will seal the horizontal tunnel by collapsing the hooked end, and it will leave a cavity partly filled with molten salt...