Word: hooke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Haupt was on the hook to the exchanges. The firm desperately undertook to cover Tino's contracts, for which it was responsible. In all, it borrowed some $30 million from U.S. and British banks. But when the soybean market failed to rise, Haupt went under...
...ring, effortlessly slipping Sonny's ponderous punches. Clay hung his arms at his sides; Liston attached his arches to the canvas. The pursuit grew slower and slower, stopped altogether when Clay unloaded a solid right to Listen's head. Straining to reach Cassius with a left hook, Listen bent forward and swung. From somewhere in the general direction of his right hip, Clay flicked a right-hand chop that traveled no more than a foot to the side of Sonny's head. Listen sank to the canvas, rolled over onto his back, struggled to his knees...
When asked for a description of the punch that ended the fight, Clay at first replied, "a left hook and a right cross," but a few seconds later changed this to, I'll have to see the video tape...
...morning session of the tech-in, which was broadcast to more than 100 campuses through special radio and television hook-ups, included a speech by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. 'II, former professor of History at Harvard and White House aide. Though Schlesinger's speech was definitely in favor of administration policy, he voiced opposition to some of the military tactics used in Vietnam...
...What kind of man is this Rowe that comes into a fraternal organization by hook or crook?" cried Murphy. "He cares not what he swears to, and let me say this, gentlemen: he took an oath when he joined the United Klans of America. Remember Judas Iscariot! [Rowe] took this oath with his hand raised to Almighty God in joining the United Klans of America...