Word: hook
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Admiral's attempt to woo Josephine, director Lindsay Davis inserts some unnecessary slapstick which detracts from the Gilbert humor. Dick Deadeye (Phillip Baas) does not wear the usual eyepatch but sports instead a "dead eye" which, from the balcony, looks like a wart. He is also equipped with a hook for a left hand...
...contains summaries of features and specifications for all products, accompanied by helpful "how-to" articles. Then visit your local hi-fi dealers to listen to his equipment. Don't let your dealer demonstrate an inexpensive turntable by playing it through a $1000 Marantz amplifier and Bose speakers--insist he hook it up to other equipment in your price range...
Another reason for changing the succession laws, Moakley said, is that many Democrats are afraid to vote for impeachment because they would be charged with trying to reverse the results of the 1972 presidential election. Having a new national election for president would "let Democrats off the hook," he added...
...Free expression," "open market of ideas," words of this kind are stated and re-stated in the publications and the speeches of such men as Handlin, Hook, and Nathan Glazer, with all the zeal, reiteration and hypnosis of the most expensive media-promotion. There is, however, one essential item absent from the standard presentation: Intellectual license is not serious, solid or substantial--certainly it is formidably circumscribed in implication--if, prior to words and long preceding deeds, our yearnings themselves are in such firm constraint that we no longer even wish to do that which, if we could wish...
...wing, Manchester (N.H.) Union Leader Editor-Publisher William Loeb let stand a preresignation editorial that had blasted news leaks damaging to Agnew. In a brief updating statement, Loeb voiced his paper's "regret" that the "vicious distorters in the press now have a chance to get off the hook and not have to reveal their sources...