Word: hook
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...display supposedly showing a typical American kitchen. I began to inspect the appliances. There were some interesting things, but there were also a number of things which seemed purely for show and of no use. Once I'd commented on this I had swallowed the hook and was caught in a lengthy conversation with Nixon which newsmen would refer to for years to come as characterizing Soviet-American relations...
Sensing that Yauch might not be able to go much further, MIT coach Fran O'Brien got out the hook and hauled his starter to the showers. Mike Royal then ascended the mound to get the final out of the inning...
Havlicek repeatedly victimized Frazier and his eventual substitute Monroe with his size and strength, taking the ball deep inside and either passing it off to Dave Cowens for a left hook or putting the ball up himself...
Reliever Bob Larsen had a hard time finding the plate as well, but the Tufts squad didn't let him off the hook so easily. Five walks and five runs later, Larsen gave way to Mark Linehan, whose inaccuracy helped three more runs cross the plate...
From the very beginning, the appeal of the fin was irresistible. The very word angling derives from the ancient Greek onkos, or barbed hook. Circa 200 B.C., Cato the Elder (manifestly a non-angler) was astonished by tales of "a city where fish sold for more than an ox." (To the fisherman, the situation is unsurprising; acquiring the fish called for more ingenuity, greater effort and less tenderizer.) History's most prominent fisherman was, of course, St. Peter, who later turned to netting souls. In the years A.D., angling was seen as something more than the mere coaxing...