Word: hooking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...game match with Crimmins, Day managed to keep his crown, 399.49 points to 398.28. But in the round, robin that followed, he and Crimmins both bowed to a comparative upstart, 25-year-old, 230-lb. Connie Schwoegler of Madison, Wis. Rolling a very slow ball with a slight hook, Schwoegler averaged 217 for 72 games. His score of 368.37 was 36 points better than Runner-up Frank Benkovic's, 39 better than Challenger Crimmins', 49 better than Champion...
...German officers. The Russians said that they shot down 391 transports in 23 days, 191 in five days last week. They said the Germans had pressed old mail planes and trainers into transport service. These reports indicated not only that the Luftwaffe was taking heavy losses, but that, by hook or crook, it was still able to assemble a great transport fleet on the Russian front...
Burditt, who tallied 25 points before the evening was over, went to work from his pivot post, and with his peculiar under-handed bucket shot, succeeded in either drawing two fouls or dropping a deuce almost every time he was fed. George Dillon's hook shots from the foul line helped the Crimson rise, and a one-handed jump shot by Hugh Hyde with seconds remaining in the first half put them ahead 21 to 19 at intermission time...
...Cause was determined: Sever and Harvard and Emerson suffered from a hook and rack paucity. But the problem, in all its ugly bareness, still exists. And what does it bode for the future...
...bloc of 75 Western Congressmen demanded a 90-day deferment of nationwide rationing, to them a wholly unnecessary act. Michigan's Representative Frank Hook got cheers for suggesting a clipping of Leon Henderson's authority, but the hefty OPA head stood his ground. Oil had to be sent to North Africa, said he, even if it meant epidemic pneumonia in the East. (North Atlantic ports are 1,400-odd miles nearer Casablanca than the oil ports of the Gulf of Mexico...