Word: hooks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...collapsing marriage. "I wrote Save Grand Central three years ago while I was trying to find a way out of an unhappy marriage," he says. "At the time I was madly in love with another woman and hoping my wife would find someone herself and let me off the hook. This never happened in real life, so I invented a play in which this happy ending took place. It was intended as a farewell present...
...Toronto districts, but once in office he backed down after Arab nations threatened economic reprisals against Canada. A pledge to lower taxes also went by the board when the Tories belatedly concluded that this would add to the government's deficit and stimulate inflation. To get off the hook, Clark claimed that the Liberals had left the country's finances in worse shape than he had imagined...
...buses turned balky again that very night, after the first run of the luge, leaving hundreds of people standing on the pavement with cold water seeping into their shoes. The trouble is that Americans would sooner take hook worm medicine than a bus. The fact is that the buses know they are despised, and in their resentment they simply would not stop...
Another Penn free-throw was foiled by a twisting Harris hook to move the count to 75-68 with 1:33 to go. On the next play, Harris fouled out of the game, and Penn followed with three more points from the charity stripe that, together with a Harvard turnover, left the Crimson with little more than a prayer...
...time everything I do is by the rule book ... My style of play is mean and nasty, and I am going to beat people physically and mentally, but in no way am I going down in the record book as a cheap-shot artist." He explains the now-outlawed "Hook" tackle taught to him by fellow Safety George Atkinson as "simply flexing your biceps and trying to catch the receiver's head in the joint between the forearm and the upper arm. The purpose of the Hook was to strip the receiver of the ball, his helmet, his head...