Word: hooke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Late in the first round. Doti caught Crowe with a looping left hook, but he could not put the blond to the canvas. Crowe returned the favor by staggering Doti with a straight left, but he too, could not finish the task...
...main burden [in getting the treaty's terms fulfilled] will once again fall on the President. He will be forced to hammer out compromises on these serious problems, and that will take up an enormous amount of his time. But Sadat cannot afford to let Carter off the hook because the American's presence in the talks may be the only way to consistently get the Israelis to heed the urgency of the Palestinian problem." This view is seconded by Noyes, who says, "What Carter has got to do is to put some teeth into the next proceedings...
Small and big traders and middlemen are charging huge spot-market premiums over and above the OPEC price. Because profits can reach billions a year, you have to expect that the spot trade will increase by hook or crook, and I mean the words literally. When OPEC sees how much money is made on its oil by in-between traders, the producing countries will have no political choice but to increase their own prices and divert more oil to the spot market. That was clear from the moment the Iranian crisis broke. Our Government was made well aware...
...well to remember that this comes from a character who does not even vote. In addition, pretense to imaginative fiction is frequently dropped for ad hominem attacks on real people: Irving Kristol, Sidney Hook and Henry Kissinger, for example, are branded as men "of limited mentality and unconvincing motive...
Frank and his witnesses, including Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 --appearing from Washington, D.C. via a long range television hook-up--"argued that deregulation would inevitably lead to lower prices and increased efficiency in the trucking industry because of the increased competition...