Word: hooke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With 30 seconds to go in the fourth round, Ali backed into his corner and held onto the upper rope strand with his right hand. As Holmes closed in, Ali threw a triple hook, all three of which landed...
...third round began with Minter's eyes a bloody mess. Once again the Briton tried to toe-to-toe it, and once again Hagler prevailed. A leaping right hook, sort of a reverse Joe Frazier job, hurt Minter. After a few more Hagler flurries, the referee brought Minter to his corner, where his seconds recognized the obvious and had the fight stopped. To the Minter partisans, however, it appeared that the referee had stopped the fight on his own, and that he had done so unfairly. While Hagler celebrated his victory by dropping to his knees a la Bjorn Borg...
...engine companies, a hook-and-ladder and more than a dozen members of the Cambridge Fire Department responded to the alarm at 6:45 p.m. The firefighters cleared the building of smoke with electric ventilators before allowing students and library staff to re-enter Widener...
...case with the animals fed huge amounts of saccharin). But what causes problems in one species may not be dangerous to another. In Michigan, researchers found that cows that licked barn wood treated with the preservative pentachlorophenol were starving to death. It turned out, explains Jerry Hook of Michigan State University's new Center for Environmental Toxicology, that "this substance is toxic to the bacteria in the cow rumen." Such toxicity did not show up in tests with rats...
...dislikes flam-boyance, and, unlike some of basketball's greatest stars, has apparently never made a move merely to attract attention...Bradley calls practically all men 'Mister' whose age exceeds his won by more than a couple of years." The piece gives some insight into the dynamics of a hook shot, stresses the importance of practice, describes a high polish. But it says almost nothing important; none of the things that could have been said if he had chosen Connie Hawkins as his subject and talked about what it feels like to be the greatest showoff in the world...