Word: hook
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they turned to the Sinai settlements, and that took 2½ hours, beginning with a brief Carter-Begin meeting, followed by a Carter-Sadat huddle of more than an hour and a half. Sadat was unhappy at letting Begin off the hook by passing the issue to the Knesset, and Carter's aides waiting outside the President's pine-paneled study grew more and more worried. Then, at 4:30, Carter looked out the window and flashed the thumbs-up sign. They had a deal. Begin got his copies of the proposed agreements in his cabin, Birch, read them carefully...
...typical tune will start with a strong melodic hook-sometimes tough, sometimes close to lilting-then build in volume and intensity, the instruments laying under and layering on one another until the song shatters around your ears like a sheet of glass falling off a fast-moving truck. This is heavy-metal music with easy-listening inflections, rock fierce enough for the FM stations, flighty enough to fit right into Top 40 AM radio...
Those amazing Pittsburgh Pirates closed to within one game of first place last night, teaming a 12-11 win over Chicago (in 11 innings) with a Philadelphia loss, 5-2 to the Montreal Expos. The same four teams will hook up again tonight in action that could knot the NL East...
...that first base to home plate hook-up that ended a ninth inning Tiger threat and protected an 8-6 Red Sox lead, handing the struggling Boston team a nerve-racking win over Detroit last night...
...week. Broussard's wife developed a serious kidney ailment eight years ago, probably from drinking cistern-stored water. Two or three times a week he had to drive her to Charity Hospital in New Orleans. "They lent me a dialysis machine, but I had no water to hook it up. It had to run off my old wooden cistern. Each night I would ride to Lake Hermitage [now Lake Judge Perez] to get water to keep it running. The doctors at Charity tried to get parish officials to help me find a place to live with running water...