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Word: hooks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hauptfuhrer Nation's Tenth Highest Scorer With 190, Reports AP | 1/17/1947 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: Crimson Basketeers Subdue Stubborn Brown Five, 53-40 | 1/9/1947 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Crowned | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 9, 1946 | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Richard A. Green, | Title: Freshman Basketball | 11/29/1946 | See Source »

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