Word: hook
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...left ventricle, the heart's primary pumping chamber. A decade later, Dr. Charles P. Bailey, then in Philadelphia, developed a procedure called endarterectomy, in which he opened a blocked coronary artery and reamed out a plug of accumulated cholesterol with a device resembling a crochet hook...
When not dreaming of the Big Strike, bass fishermen are forever trying to hook their friends on Micropterus sal-moides, the wily and voracious largemouth bass. Such was the case when Correspondent Sam Iker, a self-certified "bass nut," lured Associate Editor Ray Kennedy to Dunnellon, Fla.. for a long weekend of fishing on the Withlacoochee River. Kennedy's report...
...shoebox under my arm contained a tangled reel, a 25? red-and-white bobber and a dozen rusty hooks -the remnants of a summer of bluegill fishing with the children. Anglin' Sam came armed for an amphibious invasion. As he checked out his gear with John Wilhelm Sr., one of Florida's foremost bass fishermen, Sam unpacked armfuls of monogrammed rods and gleaming reels, a stack of Bassmaster magazines and a tackle box as big as a footlocker. Unfolding like a Chinese puzzle, the box was crammed with all kinds of hardware, first-aid supplies, rod cement, hooks...
...smell in the air-a combination of pork rind, outboard motor oil, anise and fish scales-he called "essence of largemouth." That afternoon, while twitching purple-plastic worms off the bottom, I had a strike that seemed to turn the boat around. When I set the hook, it felt like there was an anvil on the other end. Diving and circling the boat, the enormous thing finally came boiling out of the water. Then it tore off for a weed bed and snapped the 20-lb. test line like a kite string. That evening under the oaks I told...
...accurate assessment of student thinking. I would be happy to be corrected. But if it is. does the student body of Harvard College really think us 150,000 slobs, the Harvard alumni, will swallow this double standard on academic freedom which the student body evidently has swallowed hook, line, and sinker? In 1952. the threat to academic freedom came from outside Harvard Yard, from a Senate hearing room in the United States Capitol. The way it looks from grassroots Maryland, the threat to freedom today at Harvard comes from within the walls of Harvard Yard, within Harvard itself...