Word: hooke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Having just given the hook to 20 White House limousines, Carter broke further ground by eating lunch with staffers in the White House mess (the President's order: a cheeseburger and iced tea). At his second Cabinet meeting, he was pleased to find his lieutenants following his lead: the Interior Secretary had closed the department's VIP dining room for senior officials and eliminated five limousines, the Attorney General had dismissed his private FBI bodyguards. The White House also requested-and, not surprisingly, was granted-the early reprieve of Mary Fitzpatrick from a Georgia prison so that...
...left to play and thereafter the cagers' offense began to fizzle. After a three-minute scoring lull with both squads tied at 39, Yale piled up a 48-41 lead. During the cold spell, the hoopsters went eight minutes without a field goal before Irion dropped a whirling hook from the baseline...
...overheated furnace at the Fox Club, 72 Mt. Auburn St., attracted an engine and a hook-and-ladder company from the Cambridge Fire Department and much attention from passers-by yesterday afternoon...
...asked the fire department to come over and shut it off, but they sent over the hook and ladder," said a member who wished to remain anonymous. "They really overreacted," he added. The firefighters remained at the club for approximately 15 minutes...
...York harbor, the Coast Guard waged a bitter struggle to keep shipping lanes open to the nation's busiest port. Sandy Hook Channel, one of the two main passageways, finally was closed as the unusually heavy ice submerged or moved navigational buoys. No one wanted to risk yet another major oil-tanker disaster. Icebreakers rammed their curved prows against ice up to 18 in. thick to keep the Hudson open as far north as Albany. Surprisingly, the faithful Staten Island ferry kept moving Manhattan workers in comfort to their jobs across the windswept harbor...