Word: hooks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...generously to Thomas, "He knows I'm a baaad player." Certainly everyone does. However, this year Magic Johnson took the trophy emphatically while the Lakers struggled for the prize. The critical shot in Game 4, when Boston could have evened the play-off at home, was a short hook that Johnson added only this season, "lifting his game" in his eighth year. That's the customary phrase, though it makes him wonder. "I was asked to score more this year, but it's wrong to say I've given more. I've always played the role I've been asked...
...German aviator. No less an insider than Valentin Falin, head of the official Novosti press agency, initially predicted that the "young man will soon see his parents and friends." But as the week wore on, the Soviets seemed to grow less and less inclined to let Rust off the hook, or for that matter to dismiss his unprecedented feat as an innocent, if dangerous, stunt. In any case, said Yegor Yakovlev, editor in chief of the foreign-language weekly Moscow News, Rust "will have to answer according...
Congress would not let Reagan off the hook. "We need to rethink exactly what we are doing in the Persian Gulf," said Republican Senate Leader Bob Dole, a candidate to succeed Reagan. "What are our goals? What is our strategy? What are the risks? And how much cost are we willing to pay?" Dole co-sponsored a resolution with Democrat Robert Byrd requiring that the , President present Congress with an analysis of those questions. Said Byrd: "I believe that it is appropriate to ask the Administration to provide the Congress with a full report before we implement any agreement with...
...railroad, six feet long by three wide, in which the laborers locked up their tools at night; and it suggested to me that every man who was hard pushed might get such a one for a dollar, and . . . get into it when it rained and at night, and hook down the lid, and so have freedom in his love, and in his soul be free...
...usually first crawl out of the ground after sunset. Their main defense, though, may be sheer numbers: birds, raccoons and skunks can crunch up only so many insects. After climbing the nearest vertical object -- a tree or post, for example -- the insects take their last step toward adulthood. They hook their needle-like claws into the surface, arch their backs to break their skin and then wiggle free. A day later they are ready to fly away. All of this is merely a prelude to courtship, with the male cicadas seeking to attract mates with their staccato siren song, produced...