Word: unhook
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...Films of the traditional sort did not risk truthtelling, largely because of the hoodoo of sex. What they gave us was Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland sipping one soda through two straws. The suggestion that Judy wore a bra, and that Mickey might have wanted to unhook it, would have been so unthinkable that to mention it, even now, seems boorish...
...wake of the international monetary system's recurring crises, European governments are erecting ever stricter controls on the flow of capital across national boundaries. The most recent furor, caused by Britain's decision to unhook the pound from a fixed value and let it fetch whatever the market will bring, has brought on yet another spate of regulations. Their purpose is understandable: to keep out the flood of homeless, speculative cash -much of it in irredeemable dollars -that can make a betting game out of currency values and disrupt nations' economies in the process. The growing danger...
...boots, which she said were her tribute to the woodsmen of the world and (because they zipped up the back) the zipper industry. "I always feel I've failed the zipper industry," said Miss Corio. "I use hooks and eyes on all my garments because the movement to unhook them is both quicker and more graceful than the long, often erratic gesture of zipping. Early in my stripping career, a zipper failed to unzip, quite ruining a performance attended by three members of the Supreme Court...
...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...
Atom Cannon. In Manhattan, although police testified that two patrolmen were knocked to the ground when Howard Simms's pistol accidentally discharged as one of them tried to unhook it from his belt, the court found Simms innocent of carrying a firearm, concluded the cops "must have been leaning pretty far over when they were knocked down," gave the defendant back his 1-in.-long...