Word: sinkers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Laver's serve is as unique as it is effective. The man is not physically impressive, but his forearms are massive. On every service the ball rises high over the net, then plunges at an opponent's feet with the speed and dip of a major league sinker. A refined, almost inherent ability to put drastic topspin on his volleys make Laver's returns tortuous to handle, and even when he is caught out of position, and uncanny sixth sense can often keep him out of danger...
...certainly wasn't the first big fish that Corrine Huff, 26, ever caught, but it was the first blue marlin to fall for her hook, line and sinker. The former Ohio beauty queen, now chief secretary and consoler of Harlem's self-exiled Congressman, Adam Clayton Powell, entered the annual blue-marlin tournament in Bimini, first day out aboard Adam's Fancy made all the muscular males seasick by delicately hauling in a huge, 459-lb. blue. That was enough to win Corrine the tourney right there, but to make everyone more jealous she boated...
...stays with him until they can get out-which can mean as long as a day or more in enemy territory. Most often an airman is lifted out of difficult terrain by hoist. Each rescue copter has a 240-ft. cable tipped by a "forest penetrator": a 25-lb. sinker that can plunge through heavy foliage, then, petal-like, open up to form three seats. Rescue squadrons stand on alert for every sortie northward, and some even nest for a period within North Viet Nam, waiting for a mayday call...
...environs, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. deliberately set out to get himself and his followers arrested. He succeedd spectacularly, spending four days in jail himself and getting nearly 3,500 others booked by Alabama's remarkably stupid law enforcement officials, who fell hook, line and sinker for his bait. Toward week's end, King was accurately able to state in a national fund-raising "Letter from a Selma, Ala., Jail" newspaper advertisement that "there are more Negroes in jail with me than there are on the voting rolls...
...back in 1935 Flynn senior cast some lead upon the waters, a super-colossal sinker called Captain Blood, and he would certainly cheer to hear that it had come home, covered all over with green stuff, to a lad of 23 who seems willing and able to follow in his father's bootsteps...