Word: hook
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...basically just a ball beater," he says. "If Alex started to hook the ball badly, I really wouldn't want to fool with his swing...
...relief sewer system will hook up with the sewage drainage pipes of private firms on the Charles that have used the river as a dumping ground in the past, Owen said...
...peasant in the corridor of the next train out of Yugoslavia. I hadn't known you could bring sheep onto a passenger train, but maybe this one didn't count--it had, after all, been reduced to a skinless carcass and it swayed neatly and gently on a hook in the doorway. After our tickets had been punched, I decided to stroll on up to the first class just in case I could weasel a genuine seat...
...which uses a corporate shelter for exploring the lives of dozens of people and their families employed by one company, also borrow the daytime shows' mode of interweaving multiple plots. Notes Bud Grant, CBS programming chief: "The serial is the most powerful form invented for television. Once you hook an audience, it stays hooked...
...duty, the 43 U.S. officers at Panmunjom mingle at an officers' club called The Monastery, where each man has a brown, velveteen monk's robe and hood that he dons for elaborate induction ceremonies. Each officer also owns a black baseball cap, which is hung on a hook above the bar. The most veteran member of the group hangs his hat on a hook around the corner, and when his time to go home comes his robed colleagues recite an elaborate liturgy of farewell toasts, and move their hats up one peg. They all know that the next...