Word: hooks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...raiser: "The first question Jews ask me is whether Jesse Jackson is going to be on the ticket as Vice President. The second question is whether Jackson is going to have a Cabinet job." Jackson has shown no interest in either, but that has not let Mondale off the hook. Says Scammon: "If Mondale panders to Jackson at the convention, white Southerners and white blue-collar workers would turn away, in addition to the Jews...
...small metal hook which, when pointed towards the mound and rotated to science fiction sounds out of "Lost in Space," was supposed to unnerve the visiting pitcher. Explained one bench-warming Engineer. "It makes him think he's gonns get the hook...
...circle, drawn in the dirt with a bat, with the opposing pitcher's number inscribed. "An ellipse will do just as well," the Engineer said. "We had a six-game losting streak until we started with the hook and the circle," he added...
...hook didn't seem to bother either Crimson starter Paul Vallone or relief ace Chris Schindler, who were too busy getting used to standing on a pitcher's mound to pay attention to Beaver hijinks. Vallone, a night fielder, and Schindler, a first baseman, aren't exactly the team's most experienced hurlers...
These advertisements are almost prose poems. They give the word soap suds a bubbly shiny individual meaning which is very skillfully poetic, would perhaps be quite poetic to the mind, which could forget that the poetry was bait on a hook." --D.H. Lawrence, "Pornography and Obscenity...