Word: hooke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...then the Crimson's zone defense began to wilt, B.U.'s Steve Pugatch (who had 25 points for the night) drove in for a hook shot, Randy Robinson scored on a drive, and Larry Gluck swished a 25-foot bomb, John Scott sank two foul shots for Harvard, but B.U. came right back with two quick baskets. Harvard led, 73 to 71, with 13 seconds on the clock...
Quick Change. That experience may seem tame compared with the planned rendezvous with Gemini 6, which had been scheduled to go up Oct. 25. Gemini 6, programmed to hook up with an unmanned vehicle, was scrubbed after the latter blew up. The cancellation allowed Gemini 7 to be moved up from its scheduled launch in late December, and gave National Aeronautics and Space Administration officials the opportunity to launch 6 and 7 nine days apart in an attempt to achieve the first meeting of manned craft in space. The challenge was to compress the normal launch preparation time so that...
...Puppeteer Bil Baird's book is not a history but an appreciation of the theatrical form whose genesis, lost in time, goes back thousands of years. Punch and Judy were born before Diarist Samuel Pepys, who watched their antics in the 17th century. Punch's ancestor, a hook-nosed Turkish bully named Karaghioz, preceded him by several centuries. The special exaggerated magic of the marionette, which lives only in the minds of its spectators and often requires three human puppeteers to give it movement, is affectionately evoked by a man who has been quickening his own mannequins...
...Americans are equally ingenious. Men use the clips for makeshift key chains and tie clips. Frustrated executives fire them against the wall with rubber bands. Secretaries use them to keep hairdos in place or hold broken bra straps together. And, bent lengthwise, a paper clip makes a perfect hook for hanging Christmas tree balls...
...more than most. From the second round on, it was evident that Cassius could have knocked Patterson out any time he chose-and he almost did, despite himself, in the sixth round. A ripping uppercut snapped Floyd's head back and turned his legs to rubber; a left hook drove him to his knees. Clay stood there watching, hands at his sides, as Floyd staggered to his feet at the count of nine. "I wanted to stop it earlier," said Referee Harry Krause, who called a halt in the twelfth round. "Patterson was hopelessly outclassed...