Word: hooked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many years after beach volleyball was beginning, some friends and I used to play basketball on Sunday mornings in a Greenwich Village playground. The highlight of the year was not some spectacular hook shot--there weren't any spectacular hook shots--but the awards banquet at which we'd hand out honors like "The John Foster Dulles Award for the Most Specious Out-of-Bounds Argument" and a special trophy for "Most Improved Jewish Player...
...Witness parades the same ethnic rivalries and cinematic delirium. Spanning two generations, three hours of screen time and a dozen teeming plots and counterplots, the film is weird and enthralling enough to hook American cinephiles and leave them praying for more...
...nurse. Now I've missed maybe four, five, six breaths. You don't feel pain when this happens; you feel panic. I only felt a tingling in my knees. I thrashed around. I wanted air. I was like a tuna fish landed in a boat, rolling around with the hook still in my mouth...
...Chicago August 26. Some of the campaign battle lines are already manifest in the nationwide thrust-parry-counterthrust of TV campaign commercials. A new Clinton ad timed for the end of the Republican convention says Dole would cut Medicare by $270 million, and let toxic polluters "off the hook." The GOP will respond shortly with a massive series of ads of its own. Of the $62 million dollars in federal campaign funds the Dole campaign received after the convention, some $41 million is set aside for TV ads, meaning those who miss one of Dole or Clinton's campaign stops...
...Mahoney said the event in Russell will be connected by satellite hook-up to the convention in San Diego...