Word: hook
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russians may be merely practicing hook-up procedures, a maneuver that U.S. spacemen have already perfected, or building an earth-orbiting space station. Indeed, there were suggestions that before the week ended a third capsule might be launched to join the first two. But the Russians may also be assembling the pieces of a composite spaceship, bound for the moon. U.S. space experts studied that technique years ago and abandoned it as too expensive. The Soviets' last space shot, a circumlunar mission powered by a giant booster, suggested that they too had made the same decision...
...just got this weird letter from Akiko in Tokyo. I mean it sounds great but she can hardly speak English. So please find out if she's got another guy on the hook and if so ... Have a ball...
They scored twice on passes and once on a sweep. Their second touchdown drive started on their own ten yard line and consumed the entire third quarter. Moving relentlessly down the field, the drive culminated with a ten yard hook pass in the end zone...
...patrol car reported seeing a third person atop the crane after the pair descended, but after watching and calling for half an hour, the police decided the object was a rag. The patrol cars and hook and ladder truck then went their ways...
Nantucket Memorial Airport was socked in, and all flights to and from the island resort off the southern hook of Cape Cod were canceled. The only thing moving through the mist was an awkward contraption that looked like an oversized giraffe with a bad case of neck strain. As it rumbled along, the monster seemed to be generating additional fog, spewing a fine white spray out of its tall tip. But the machine's passage produced remarkable results. In less than half an hour, some of the thick ocean-born fog overhanging the field began to disappear...