Word: hooks
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...hook in this remark is that the speaker happens to be an innovative character in a historical novel of a high imaginative order. Flanagan, 64, a professor of English at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, first demonstrated his gift for evoking the past in the constant shimmer of good fiction eight years ago, when he published The Year of the French. The work received broad acclaim and was the National Book Critics Circle's choice as the best novel of 1979. It is a rich and complex telling of a rebellion on the west coast of Ireland...
Sophomores Melinda Nelson and Sandy Springerhave matured, and will join Chandler as powerplayers on Harvard's inside game. Nelson isHarvard's "strongest player physically," accordingto Delaney Smith, while Springer has developed adangerous jump hook...
Barringer has found an excellent battery-mate in quarterback Tom Yohe. Yohe--who now holds or shares every single-season record for Harvard quarterbacks--and Barringer often hook up on sideline curl patterns, when Barringer runs 15 yards up the field, fades towards the sideline and then curls into Yohe's pass...
...practice in the over-the-counter markets. OTC market makers thus have more money available to shore up prices. But they also have less accountability. It has been charged that in the market meltdown many over-the-counter brokers simply knocked their phones off the hook...
Tierney charged the press with holding back negative coverage on Flynn. "I am really pulled that [the press] let the mayor off the hook." he said. "They didn't challenge any issues...