Word: hooking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brookline, Mass., Fire Department cannot rely too often on a 75-year-old musician with a 31-year-old fire engine. Still, it has taken official cognizance of the Arthur Fiedler Hook and Ladder Company. The Boston Pops conductor, a lifelong fire buff who owns several hundred fire helmets, was all ready for his first alarm after his family presented him with the venerable pump truck for his 75th birthday...
...Crimson had all but put the Eagles away with a three-goal burst within five minutes of the second period, but sloppy backchecking and disorganized defensive work let the Eagles off the hook and back into the game...
Hind becomes the almost ludicrous pursuer of a lost cause whose tangled effects obfuscate his thinking. Clues ravel in his memory until the past becomes present and all of life is poured into one densely occupied moment. "Hooked with a wood into the forest, it will lead you well beyond the pier," states one clue. Does it refer to the golf course owned by Hind's friend Ashley Sill, where one may hook the ball into the trees? Or does it mean the huge fishhook stuck in the ironwood outside the Laurel home, from where Hershey was taken...
...Affairs with Difererion, (or Judgment). Now this Prudence is an Habit of the Mind, inabling a good Man to dis?ose of bis outward Affairs, in the most con??odi??s man?er. It is not that carnal Subtilly, which teaches a Man to get an Eftate by hook or crook; but that godly Wifdom, which is confiftent with a good Confcience. When the Apoftle, James 3.17. mentions the Wisdom which is from above; he plainly implies that there is a Wifdom which is from below . And as the former is the Gift of God, who gives it liberally...
...season and became the cornerstone of their rebuilding program. He took his share of knocks from the Chamberlains and the Russells but managed to average 19.5 points and was the N.B.A. Rookie of the Year. Since then he has developed steadily; he has a hard-driving layup, a feathery hook, a quick outside jump shot. And on defense, he is all but unbeatable...