Word: hooking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Exploiting his height under the basket, Hauptfuhrer has registered most of his markers on tap-ins and pivot hook shots, and on give-and-go combinations with Mariaschin...
...this point, the Varsity started to click. Mariaschin put his team in the lead with a running hook shot, and Gantt's speed enabled him to tally three baskets on fast breaks between Brown scores in the next five minutes to give Harvard a four-point lead...
Sugar Ray got up slowly, and with a lot more respect for Tommy Bell's left hook. For six rounds, he followed Louis' advice, relying on jab-&-retreat rather than toe-to-toe mayhem. When he finally cut loose in the eleventh, Robinson had Bell glassy-eyed and ready for a K.O.-but lacked the strength to drive home the finishing punch. After hearing himself announced as new welterweight champ, Sugar Ray stood in his corner, dog-tired and happy, but not quite the world-beater he was cracked...
...reading it first in TIME, I took it to be a bit of South-baiting, a habit I think TIME sometimes has, and which makes my bristles rise. So, I rose for the bait, and took it, hook, line, sinker...
...pair of six feet three inch forwards, John Rockwell and Frank Lionette. Rockwell comes by his basketball ability naturally, hailing from Indians, which is reputed to have a basket and backboard in every backyard. A domon under and around the hoop, Rock can also toss in a neat hook-shot...