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Word: hook (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cable subscribers disconnect from the service every month; most are people who move and have to be wooed to cable all over again in their new homes. Also, someone moving into the house or apartment of a person who had cable service finds it a relatively simple matter to hook up the wires again and watch cable TV for free; only the most elementary knowledge of electronics is required. The National Cable Television Association estimates that, besides the 14.5 million paid-for sets, 1.5 million other sets are hooked to cable illegally, and their owners' nonpayments cost cable operators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Cable TV: The Lure of Diversity | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

...every sense, Saturday morning will be a bruising affair as Radcliffe and Yale hook up in a heavyweight showdown that could be the most exciting race the Charles has seen in quite some time...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Three Crews Set for Attack on Choppy Charles | 4/28/1979 | See Source »

...stacked up neatly behind Himelman with Chip Raffi posting a 77, Carroll Lowenstein a 78, and Jim Dales a 79. The fifth score included in the fiveman team total of 393 was an 83, carded by both John Thompson and Sanjeev Mehra. Spence Fitzgibbons, who has developed a nasty hook lately, logged...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Linksters Gun by Providence at TCC | 4/25/1979 | See Source »

...killed. For those who returned, the physical and emotional toll was drastically increased by the unpopularity of the war and America's unresolved guilt about its role. "Get that in Viet Nam?" a fellow student asked Veteran Frederick Downs as he walked across a college campus with a hook where his left hand should have been. When Downs nodded, the student snarled: "Serves you right." Says Michael Murray of Lewisboro, N.Y.: "They were down on us when they should have been down on the people who sent us there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Heroes Without Honor Face the Battle at Home | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

...evening's only knock-out came in the 139-1b. class, when New York's Bobby Francis landed a right and left combination on Felix (Perez) Almonte's gut, then connected on a crushing roundhouse left hook to floor the Bostonian. The referee stopped the bout with 15 seconds left in the first round...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: New Yorkers Prevail in IAB Boxing | 4/14/1979 | See Source »

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