Word: sinker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...honors that have long eluded him are in view. McLain is in the minors, and Blue, after a lengthy holdout, has yet to win a game. Meanwhile, Lolich is bewildering American League batsmen with a repertory of pitches that now includes a "cut fastball," a slider and a hard sinker. His victory over the California Angels last week made him the second pitcher this season to win nine games and left the Tigers a comfortable four games ahead of the Baltimore Orioles in the league's East Division...
Hoary Propaganda. The speech caused hardly a ripple in the U.S., but from Belfast to Whitehall it reaped a whirlwind of scorn. Kennedy, declared Northern Ireland's Prime Minister Brian Faulkner, "has shown himself willing to swallow hook, line and sinker the hoary old propaganda that I.R.A. atrocities are carried out as part of a freedom fight on behalf of the Northern Irish people." Other critics quickly pointed out that Kennedy's proposal for unification was unrealistic, and that even the Irish Republic's Lynch has said only that he hopes unification can be achieved...
...assessment of student thinking. I would be happy to be corrected. But if it is. does the student body of Harvard College really think us 150,000 slobs, the Harvard alumni, will swallow this double standard on academic freedom which the student body evidently has swallowed hook, line, and sinker? In 1952. the threat to academic freedom came from outside Harvard Yard, from a Senate hearing room in the United States Capitol. The way it looks from grassroots Maryland, the threat to freedom today at Harvard comes from within the walls of Harvard Yard, within Harvard itself...