Word: hook
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...indeed. Father and son shoot some grouse and a small mastodon, as the father recalls later, hook a 250-lb. fresh-water marlin, and reject as unworthy of their time and skill a unicorn whose horn is not made of gold...
...slight disorientation that a suburban householder feels upon entering wild country. It is a delicately calculated trick, but it works. Easy slashes of cruelty cut the airy imagining. " Try this,' I told my son. I handed him a two-ounce, slightly chewed Yellow Cab with a treble hook mounted on the front bumper ... Inside a minute, he had three wiggling pedestrians on the hook ... One was a girl in a patent-leather suit, hooked lightly through the lip, so we released her. On the next three casts, we added a spade pimp, an elevator inspector, the club-footed editor...
...nightcap, Penn hurler Petit did not get off the hook so easily. The Crimson chased Petit off the mound in the midst of a six-run rally in the third that gave O'Malley his second straight Eastern League victory...
...cane something like an Indian peace pipe with a wire basket instead of a bowl. The basket has two wire rings, one higher than the other. Hanging from one of the rings is a little ball made from the light core of a corn cob, with a wire hook in it. The idea is to gently support the ball with your breath, and raise it from one ring to the other and back again without it falling...
...class, "Gentleman" James Chiarkas of Lowell House seemed a sure win over Winthrop's Mike "Marathon" Bernick in the first round. By the third round, Chiarkas' jitterbug had slowed to a waltz, but he mustered a surprise left hook that just barely gave him the decision...