Word: hooke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...closest to conversion: "Hatred indicates interest." The pattern of instruction is always the same. Sheen starts with reason, firmly discouraging all mysticism or merely emotional belief. When people tell him they believe in God, he wants to know why, and won't let them off the hook till they can recite the logical proofs for God's existence. These early lessons on reason prove the most difficult; the going gets easier, rather than rougher, when Sheen reaches matters of faith...
...galloped up & down basketball courts in the N.C.A.A. tournament with all the intensity, if not the ferocity, of a rampaging bear. In four games against some of the U.S.'s best teams (Texas Christian, St. Louis, Santa Clara and St. John's), Lovellette, using an apparently unstoppable hook shot, demolished every major N.C.A.A. scoring record by swishing 141 points through enemy baskets...
Love Is Better Than Ever (MGM) works at a strenuous little plot about a dewy-eyed New Haven dancing teacher (Elizabeth Taylor), who is out to hook a blase Broadway agent (Larry Parks). In the course of her campaign, she 1) annoys him by publicly announcing their nonexistent engagement, 2) gets him tangled up in a troupe of twirling moppets at a dance recital, 3) taunts him with being a "flesh peddler." Elizabeth Taylor, ineptly striving for comic form, reveals a photogenic figure, but Parks falls flat on his farce. Completed early in 1951, Love Is Better Than Ever...
Lionette was the second highest scorer on last season's squad. His specialties are a hook shot that is almost impossible to stop on good nights and a fancy two-hand overhead set shot that he uses from close...
Massachusetts is hardly alone in the problem of who's going to take over the actual television stations themselves. Though almost all college authorities and educational officials are in favor of educational TV, very few are going to shell out on their own hook...