Word: hooke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lionette, whom Shepard feels is "distinctly improved" this year, has been passing well in practice off the pivot, and his hook shot can be unstoppable. Shepard predicts all his starters have the ability to score over 15 points on any given night, and says all five of them can't go cold at the same time-he hopes...
Arresting gear-wire cables snagged by a long hook dangling from a plane's tail-will be mounted across the landing flight path, as usual. But the new, angled deck* will not need the wire barrier that once cut across the Antietam to keep a bad landing from becoming a disaster. Without that barrier, planes that missed the arresting gear were almost certain to damage others on the deck. Now, a pilot who overshoots the mark will have a chance to go around again. He can drag low across the landing area without crashing into the wings of parked...
...Hook, Line, and Sinker...
...Harvard students swallow the left-wing propaganda hook, line, and sinker," she added...
...hifi" (for "high fidelity") is a man who believes that sooner or later he can hook up enough amplifiers, tone arms and speakers in his living room to make his recordings sound just as good as a performance in a concert hall-maybe better. Half a dozen years ago, there was hardly a platoon of them in the whole U.S. Last week in Manhattan, 15,000 of them trooped to the fourth annual hi-fi roundup, known as the Audio Fair. Partsmakers and plain fans, they took over 116 rooms of the New Yorker Hotel, set up their wares...