Word: hooking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even the slightest vibration of the receiver cord sways the receiver and cracks it against the partition. Each new person using the phone is unaware of this, and takes another chip out of the receiver. A simple sensible solution would be to install wall racks or merely a stationary hook to set the receiver on. Alden R. Adams '46, of Kirkland House, and seventeen members
Right at the start of last week's title bout in half-filled Yankee Stadium (crowd: 39,827), Tony showed that he was going to slug it out Rocky's way. Midway in the first round he lashed a right uppercut and a left hook to the challenger's jaw. Rocky went down for a count of four. In the next round he gave Zale the pounding of his life. Standing flat-footed at close range, he swung right after right, often starting with his fist at knee level and finishing with it flush against the champion...
...welts over both eyes, a buzzing head, a chipped bone in his right thumb. Graziano's only apparent wound was a bloody nose. Groggy but still game, Zale suddenly launched a tigerish attack on Rocky's midsection. The challenger crumpled, gasping for air, and a following left hook floored him. When he finally got his wind back, he jumped up full of fight, but it was too late...
Jack Doyle, lady-killing Irish ex-heavyweight whose U.S. career included few ring victories but two marriages to cinema starlets, one engagement to Auto Heiress Delphine Dodge, was arrested for trying his left hook on a lady in Dublin. She went down for a short count, whereupon Jack helped her up, then let her have another one. Next day in court he agreed to a ten-bob fine, but announced with injured dignity: "There is no law in the world to prevent me getting drunk every night if I behave myself...
...know who designed my modern china (Cavitt-Shaw, circa 1940), but at the home ranch and cow-camp, we like these cups. They keep coffee hot, and the handles let men, as well as women, who know better but like to do it, "hook" their cups. The ample wife of one rancher has trouble with the dribble. I thought it due to ill-fitting dentures, but noticed last dehorning that she laps her lip far down the side, as a child does...