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Word: hooking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Miss Tracy firmly skewers Sir Toby on her hook, then lets him off. Instead of savaging him as he deserves, she plays plot games with the side question: Will the antiadultery adulterer get caught? Or else she putters about with the stock characters of English comedy: a gossip columnist straight out of Evelyn Waugh, a giddy old upper-class biddy of the sort invariably played by Margaret Rutherford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Un-lrish Restraint | 4/5/1968 | See Source »

...Boston headquarters of the Unitarian Universalist Association has used computerized bookkeeping for years, and is about to hook up with a larger computer bank in Manhattan for additional service. With its new facilities the church will study members' views on a wide range of questions, from sex to the hereafter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Churches: Programming the Flock | 3/29/1968 | See Source »

...underdog Italian scored a unanimouse 15-round decision over Griffith, flooring him with a left hook in the ninth round...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Frazier by TKO; Benvenuti Decision | 3/5/1968 | See Source »

...reforce stopped the bout, a scheduled 15 rounded, after Frazier landed a crashing left hook which sent the bloodied Mathis through the ropes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Frazier by TKO; Benvenuti Decision | 3/5/1968 | See Source »

...below the knee. Also it can only be leveled at the man with the puck. Cross-checking, or rapping a player with the stick lifted completely off the ice, is patently illegal. Legal defensive moves include poke checking, which is simply an attempt to jab the puck free, and hook checking, which is usually a desperation gambit-the off-balance defender hooks his stick around the puck as the attacker charges past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: RULES OF THE RINK | 3/1/1968 | See Source »

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