Word: hooke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wilt Chamberlain hook sliding into second base. Brooks Robinson passing the puck to Howard Cosell in the keyhole. Fran Tarkenton striking out the side in the World Series. Bobby Orr slashing over right tackle to win the Davis Cup for the Pittsburgh Orioles...
...then. He tried to direct my great energy into the proper form of protest. He invented long simple allegories that always pictured the white politicians as animals...He and my mother went to great pains to impress on me that it was the worst form of niggerism to hook and jab, cut and stab at other blacks...
...bureaus linked directly by telex with New York. In Saigon on a trouble-shooting mission in 1965, Striker improved world communications with South Viet Nam by opening the first private radio-cable circuit to New York via Manila. In 1967, when we sensed the need for our own direct hook up between Manhattan and Jerusalem, Striker installed a telex in our office there. One month later the machine was in constant use transmitting our correspondents' coverage...
Epps further comments that DiCara has a real chance since Boston voters don't consider him a Harvard-type but more "one of them...short, stocky, hook-nosed, balding." Genuine Harvard people, we must assume from Epps' viewpoint, are all tall, thin, straight-nosed, and hairy. Nowhere does Epps suggest that some Boston voters might have selected DiCara for his platform (or his understanding of their problems) rather than his nationality or looks. But then, that might be asking too much insight from the Crimson president whose narrow vision still very much reflects Harvard's W.A.S.Per-than-thou mentality...
...line for us," Guenther explained. "Everyone says, 'Oh, yeah, he's the well-educated candidate." DiCara can pull it off because no one would ever think of him as a candidate from Harvard. The voters of Boston can recognize him on sight as one of them: short, stocky, hook-nosed, balding, he resembles not at all the pipe-smoking, tweedy grandees like McGeorge Bundy who have tried for City Council with such disastrous results. Added to his appearance, there are his credentials: Robert F. Kennedy Action Corps, Cedar Grove Civic Association, Boston Junior Chamber of Commerce, Catholic Youth Organization, Knights...