Word: hooks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Myrdal.) Bok has always been an athletic sort of academician. A basketball star as well as a Phi Beta Kappa at Stanford, he continued to play in Cambridge as head of a campus team called "Bok's Jocks." One day six years ago, he sank a running left-handed hook shot and decided that was the moment to retire forever. He still plays a sharp game of tennis two or three times a week. He is also, of course, a heavy reader. (Current favorites include Thucydides and some of "Conrad's more obscure works...
...MANY of those people were from Red Hook? That's the run-down section of Brooklyn where the inhabitants had an almost perfect view of the celebration. That is, they had a perfect view until the head honchos decided to erect high walls along the waterfront so that people waiting to be ferried to their $5000 seats wouldn't have to view one of Brooklyn's poorest neighborhoods...
Before men and women lived together in the houses, things were very different. The doors to rooms in North House bear mute testimony to the old way of life. On almost every door hangs a 6-in. hook, which, legend says, young Radcliffe students had to use as a door prop whenever they had a male visitor. After all, no young lady could have her door closed with a man in the room. Today, male and female North House students pry the hooks off their doors as mementos of a bygone...
Olajuwon succeeded in holding back the swinging Sampson before the 7-ft., 4-in. center could land a solid right hook...
...kind of Jesuitic legal maneuvering. "We did not have a strategy saying we wanted to go after Gaddafi personally," said Shultz. "We have a general stance that opposes direct efforts of that kind." The implication is that if the attempt was indirect and unofficial, they would be off the hook...