Word: hook
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crowd's voice changed from rumble to roar. By the fifth round, Johansson's face was tight with apprehension. Slowly, his guard came down to protect a reddening body. As planned, Johansson was retreating from an attack when Patterson caught him with a rising left hook that landed flush on the side of the jaw. Johansson rolled flat on his back, then got to his knees while Patterson leaned on the ropes and flashed one of the rare, broad smiles of his career. Wobbling up at the count of nine, Johansson was ready for the kill. With...
...three children), of Portland, Ore.'s suburban Oak Grove: "We don't need Blue Birds and Boy Scouts out here. This is not the slums. The kids out here have the great outdoors. I think people are so bored, they organize the children, and then try to hook everyone else on it. And then the poor kids have no time left to just lie on their beds and daydream." Says Jean Chenoweth (two teen-age children), who moved to a Denver house from the suburbs: "Parents do nine-tenths of the work. I had a Blue Bird Group...
Walt Disney Presents (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Our Unsung Villains eulogizes the great heavies of Disneyland-Captain Hook, Br'er Fox, the Big Bad Wolf, the Wicked Queen. With Hans Conried...
...feeding white mice to the snakes, had presented dinner to an African spitting cobra, a green mamba and two Indian cobras. In the fourth cage were two tiger snakes. They had to be separated to prevent a fight to the death over food. With his "hook," a sawed-off golf club with a fork at the end, Ken tried to catch the smaller snake. It slithered away, and for a moment he overlooked its 3-ft. cage mate, coiled by the door on Ken's blind side (he lost the sight of his right eye as a child...
Self-Service. In Detroit. Carmen Eccles could not understand why a man entered her bakery shop carrying a 4-ft. steel pole with a hook on the end, soon got the message when he thrust it across the display case, successfully snatched her purse...