Word: unhook
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reporter, even one lucky enough to unhook him from beneath Burt Ross' protective arm, can't get a rise out of him. Unlike most Negroes struggling for "the cause," King keeps himself non-controversial by never saying anything anyone but the most rabid White Supremicist doesn't want to hear. Yet below his gentleness, below his slickness, one senses enormous restraint. "Yes . . . yes, of course" he drawls when introduced to a SNCC worker, as though he had followed the boy's courageous exploits all summer...