Word: hooks
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...first tune on the album, "I Want to be Sedated," is the best piece on the disc. It has a good hook, and the lyrics capture elegantly the urge for a temporary lobotomy...
...when you do you often like to leave it there. About five years ago it attacked me on a high school playground, where I had gone to play basketball, hardly expecting to be accosted in such a manner. My opponent was a young Catholic priest with a tough hook shot and a knack for sneaking sermons in during games of one-on-one. "You know what we all have in common, don't you?" he asked during a break. "Sure, we're all soldiers of the Lord, hallelujah," I answered, tossing up a set shot from the left side...
Jorge I. Dominguez, associate professor of Government, took his phone off the hook yesterday afternoon and left it there. But that didn't give him the peace he needed to finish proofreading an article for the Miami Herald on the recent thaw in Cuban-American relations; students flowed steadily into his Coolidge Hall office to discuss Dominguez's new springterm course on U.S.-Latin American relations...
...scrambler who came into the pros ten years ago with a pronounced tendency to gallop away with the ball, has long since matured into a sharp-eyed passer whose forte is picking apart the secondary, not romping down the sidelines. To avoid destruction, Staubach goes to ground with a hook slide that would do a major league base runner proud: "My instincts resist it, but the coaches instilled it in me. The more experience I have, the less I have to run, because my real asset is reading defenses and throwing to the right receiver...
...team fails to make the NBA playoffs for the second straight year. Auerbach confirms rumors that the team would like to replace Cowens with Harvard football czar and employee relations expert Wayne Woodrow "Icepick Woody" Hayes. "I mean with Kermit Washington gone we need someone with a good right hook," Auerbach says, between puffs of his cigar...