Word: hook
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...virtuoso feat that is rapidly becoming standard operating procedure, an Air Force C-119 cargo plane equipped with a grappling hook last week snagged in mid-air a third Discoverer satellite - a 300-lb. gold-plated capsule that had traveled more than a million miles in polar orbit before being parachuted near Hawaii upon pushbutton command from a control room in Sunnyvale, Calif...
...going to study your way into a love of poetry," Robert Frost told the enthralled multitudes at Sanders Theatre yesterday afternoon. Not formal training but education "by hook and by crook" is necessary to become a good night reader--a reader who can fall in love at first sight...
...through a myriad of miniaturized devices, including 105,000 diodes, 23,000 neon-filled tubes that glow orange as they connect one telephone with another in a few millionths of a second. Electronic "eyes and ears," called scanners, spring into action the instant a phone is taken off the hook, activating a photographic memory brain that contains more than 2,000,000 bits of information in a coded pattern of black and white dots. The computer is so intelligent that it constantly checks its own circuits, makes some repairs itself. When it can't make the correction, the brain...
Before the coin toss, co-announcer Bob Neal, galavanting over the gridiron in a baggy reccoon coat, introduced the starting line-ups on a hook-up that included the 40,000 at Soldiers Field. He belted each player on the shoulder and yelled "Good luck, boy," as each starter in turn smirked at the red light...
...California where Kennedy was maintaining a steady 50,000 lead: the pro-Nixon San Francisco Examiner announced that Kennedy had carried the state and the nation. Even so, the result still was not official, and Nixon was conceding nothing. Ohio's Democratic Governor Mike Di Salle, who went hook, line and sinker for Kennedy, still could not believe that Kennedy (and perhaps Di Salle) was sunk in Ohio. Kennedy rallied to take the lead in the fight for Minnesota's 11 electoral votes-enough to put him over the top according to most calculations, come what might...