Word: hooke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...points out in the Texas volume, for instance, loons are "open-water swimming birds with pointed, daggerlike bills. Larger than most ducks . . . float low in water''; despite its name, the common loon is "rare south of Corpus Christi." Shrikes are "songbirds with hawklike behavior and hook-tipped bills'"; the loggerhead species is widespread in Texas, but the Northern shrike has been recorded in only five of the state's 254 counties...
...step known as "the Jackie Gleason" (a broad parody of Gleason's away-we-go shuffle). When a pattern is finished, he may call: "Erase it," i.e., repeat the pattern in reverse. The variations often have a sports flavor, as in "the Wilt Chamberlain Hook," in which the dancer suddenly goes stiff-legged and completes his shuffle with a Chamberlain-style hook shot. Baltimore devotees like "the Unitas," in which the dancer shuffles around with arm cocked as if to forward pass. Another local variation known as "Go to the Welfare" has the dancer advancing with hand extended, palm...
...when a disgruntled crowd raised the cry, "Dirty polls!" It was like a spark in dry straw. Suddenly, 200 angry citizens raced to a police station, set it afire, fled with captured weapons. Another mob, 2,500 strong, gathered before the town hall, stoned firemen, who vainly attempted to hook up their hoses to fight back. After tear gas failed, scores of police arrived from nearby Pusan. One lowered his carbine and fired into the screaming crowd, a signal that led other cops to do the same. When it was all over, at least ten were dead, some of them...
...stirs the huchen zealot to Ahab-like fanaticism. In summer he tramps miles through rough mountain terrain, sits for hours on the edge of deep mountain pools watching for the sudden, furious boil that marks the home of a lurking huchen. Come fall, he fashions a huchen Topf-a hook hidden in a clump of colored leather strings that his fish may mistake for a small school of river lampreys. By winter, he is so eager to have at his prey that he willingly pays $5 each day for a license, stalks off to battle with a reel big enough...
...grant from the National Science Foundation, Karplus set out to "isolate a small number of ideas that underlie all natural phenomena," make these understandable to children by "direct intuitive perception." He first tackled the concepts of position and direction, developed a course called "coordinates." He taught teachers to hook their index fingers together and pull. Said he: "That's the beginning of Newton's Third Law."- Using his curriculum's careful exposition of contact, field and frictional forces, teachers and pupils brought wood blocks, rubber bands, magnets, Band-Aid boxes and buttons to class, found them suddenly...