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Word: hooks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Carrabino drove across the lane and fired home a sweet eight-foot, left-handed hook, putting the Crimson back up, 63-62. Navy...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Navy Nips Cagers; Record Falls to 2-2 | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

City Councilor David A. Wylie said he expected the bill to pass "because everybody is on the hook with 2 1/2." Massachusetts badly needs tax reform, but 2 1/2 is an "unmitigated disaster," he said, adding, however, that he would vote for the override because "it is a mitigated disaster...

Author: By Judith L. Shandling, | Title: House Gives Okay To 2 1/2 Bypass Bill | 12/3/1981 | See Source »

...imagines a world shaped by a benevolent invisible hand that magically sculpts an improved life for all. But few issues demonstrate the immorality of this doctrine more clearly than the infant formula debate. Multinational corporations, primarily in the Third World, use high-powered sales techniques and free samples to hook poor women and their children on the mass-produced formula. The companies thus create a dependence on a product these women can neither afford nor prepare safely for their children. The unavailability of pure water, clear bottles or adequate refrigeration in poor areas makes the formula extremely dangerous...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quick, Boycott Nestle | 11/24/1981 | See Source »

...many different budgets out and so many different baselines and such complexity . .. people are getting from A to B and it's not clear how they're getting there. It's not clear how we got there. [One deficit estimate was reached] "by hook or by crook, mostly the latter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Stockman Said | 11/23/1981 | See Source »

...carries for a new Harvard single-season mark of 1054) Callinan was able to move the ball with fair success on the ground, and Allard (11 for 23, 107 yards, all out of the quarterback-in-motion) had the finest passing day of his career, including five hook-ups with Cuccia for 57 yards...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Yale Baffles Harvard in 28-0 Debacle, Earns Ivy Title Share With Dartmouth | 11/23/1981 | See Source »

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