Word: hook
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...workshops are open to the public, Redes said. "We're trying to hook people into some of the groups in the city doing anti-intelligence work...
...couples who, sadly, amuse only each other. The Duchess (Goldie Hawn) is a Barbary Coast hooker trying to get off her back and onto her feet by turning a dishonest dollar. The Dirtwater Fox (George Segal) is a sharpie whose smart schemes always collapse in chaos. These two hook up to defraud a lubricious Mormon-a bit of bunko that helps keep the Dirtwater Fox a few steps ahead of some bad guys who are giving him heated chase. It seems that he made off with their loot from a bank job, only the Duchess swiped it from him, mixing...
...took New Hampshire, labor leaders started urging Humphrey to enter the race. After the Massachusetts primary, the liberals began calling. After Carter won Florida, Illinois and North Carolina, everybody called: Governors, Congressmen, party leaders. When the polls showed Carter pulling even with Humphrey, the phone almost rang off the hook. Says Dave Gartner, Humphrey's top aide: "We've got a thousand campaign managers out there...
...names of the men who were attracted to Marxism in their youth during the twenties and thirties reads almost like a roster of influential thinkers in modern America: Daniel Boorstin, Sidney Hook, Daniel Bell, Ernest Hemingway, Edmund Wilson, Granville Hicks, Reinhold Niebuhr, Daniel Aaron, and Murray Kempton, to name a few. Most of them ended up as respectable liberals. But even more intriguing than these liberals are those ex-Marxists who made a complete about-face, ending up as right-wingers. Smaller in number, they have been at least as important to conservatives as the others have been to liberal...
Yale's athletic director, Delaney Kiphuth, agreed yesterday with the demonstrators' complaints. Kiphuth said that on Monday Yale will request the zoning variance necessary for a hook-up of utilities...