Word: hooks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard coach Frank McLaughlin offered no excuses afterwards, observing with some understatement. "We sort of let them off the hook; they relaxed and got very confident. You've got to give them credit for that...
...Ragtime piano, please. Former Heavyweight Champ Gene Tunney has long since hung up his Everlasts for a career in business by the time his son is born. The kid spars a bit as a youngster but eventually picks politics over pugilism, becoming California Senator John Tunney, 47. The Hook. John, now an ex-Senator, is asked to portray his late father in Sting II, the follow-up to the 1973 original, The Sting. It stars Jackie Gleason, 65, and Mac Davis, 40, in the snap-brim, wing-tipped, confidence-man roles created by Paul Newman and Robert Redford. The Cameo...
...Pennsylvania creek." His involvement in the intricacies of fly fishing is cheerfully expert, so much so that some observations may seem impenetrable to outsiders: "I began to take a few fish on a small Fore-and-Aft fly with one grizzly hackle at each end of the hook and peacock herl wrapped in between," writes Carter. "Later I tied a few of them and the pattern proved to be surprisingly effective, both in the riffles and in the smooth water, even at times when the all-black Spruce Creek Special or the redoubtable Black Ant would not work...
...children tell is of seeing pregnant women tied to trees, their stomachs then slit open by bayonets. More common still is the liver torture-the children draw pictures of this. Here the victim is also tied to a tree, and his liver is plucked out by a specially designed hook. He may survive 20 minutes in this condition...
...agreement vests all legal responsibility in the student government and "just lets the University off the hook," Terry Nolan, student government president, said, adding that under the agreement, all film advertisements must include a disclaimer stating the "the University does not sponsor" or sanction the showing of the film...