Word: hook
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...court made it clear that the Government still can prosecute young men in court for violating the regulation that requires them to keep their cards. So Gutknecht is not off the hook. And like other young men currently "delinquent" for similar reasons, he is back in the status that he held before his act of defiance. Gutknecht...
Last January, Murdoch gained control of the 6,130,000-circulation News of the World, a lurid Sunday paper, by outmaneuvering a bigger bidder, Czech-born Robert Maxwell. The deal prompted Maxwell to remark of Murdoch: "He has caught a big fish with a very small hook." Under Murdoch's direction the fish has grown even bigger, with circulation rising despite a price increase to 80 a copy. Last October, Murdoch acquired the dull but earnest daily Sun (circ.: 950,000) for a down-payment of $120,000-considerably less than he paid for his house on London...