Word: hook
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...knot current. Hindered by debris and problems with its sonar gear, a little submersible called a Cubmarine had no better luck. Just as the situation seemed hopeless, the research ship A.B. Wood arrived, equipped with a remote-controlled underwater television camera. Using the camera to guide a grappling hook, the Wood managed to snare Sea-Link; a single tug freed the sub, which rose immediately to the surface...
Space at Nettles Island can be rented for $7.50 a day (the cable TV hook-up is 50? extra); the fee includes use of the tennis courts, saunas and gym. The 30-ft.-by-60-ft. lots can be bought, condominium style, for $7,000 ($14,000 for waterfront lots). Owners are assured of use of their plot when they want it and can divide rental income with the management at other times...
Soon after the astronauts had rendezvoused with Skylab last month, Astronaut Paul Weitz-leaning out of the Apollo command module-had attempted to pull the jammed wing out with a long-handled tool that resembled a boat hook. But a 2-ft.-long scrap of aluminum from the ripped shield was so tightly wrapped around the bottom of the wing that it would not extend...
...save the party's chances in 1976. Such a move would give Spiro Agnew a stint as President before he would have to run on his own. By the same token, some Democrats reason it might be better to keep the Administration dangling on the Watergate hook until 1976, even if Nixon should turn out to be impeachable. Democratic Congressman Henry S. Reuss raised anew the possibility of a bipartisan, caretaker Government under Speaker of the House Carl Albert until the next election-a prospect possible only in the unlikely event that Agnew should voluntarily resign along with Nixon...
...undocked and maneuvered Apollo to Skylab. Wearing a bulky space suit, Weitz leaned out of Apollo's hatch (while Kerwin held onto his knee to keep him from drifting out into space) and attempted to pull the jammed panel loose with a long-handled tool resembling a boat hook. The panel would not budge. After an hour of pushing, shoving and tugging-interspersed with streams of obscenities clearly audible to millions-the task seemed hopeless. "I hate to say it," said the exasperated Weitz, "but we ain't going to do it with the tools...