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Word: dunked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although he is the shortest player on the Harvard roster, Campbell can dunk. He did it last season in a game against Hartford's NBA first-round pick Vin Baker, and he does it again, in a triple-exposure photo, on a promotional poster currently being distributed by the Athletic Department...

Author: By Peter K. Han, | Title: Campbell: Courtside Anomaly | 11/13/1993 | See Source »

...genius or call it selfishness -- the two traits often overlap -- but Jordan sometimes seemed to resent the fact that he had four teammates on the floor with him. His talent was so singular that he was often competing only against himself, against the memory of his last impossible dunk, his last acrobatic steal, his last whizzing cross-court assist. And in the end, that kind of competition bored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I'll Fly Away | 10/18/1993 | See Source »

...Science Center fountain: At Harvard, instead of cracking open fire hydrants, intellectuals frolic in a fountain designed to demonstrate Brownian motion and the refraction of light. Still, water is wet, no matter how you dunk yourself...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, | Title: BEATING THE HEAT | 7/9/1993 | See Source »

...matter how sacred they may be, are about as interesting to watch as the growth of bamboo. What's more, Dancing is multicultural with a vengeance, meaning that the producers think it insufficient to examine the central role that dance plays in primitive societies; they must also slam-dunk colonialism and Christianity for trying to suppress native cultures. Missionaries have much to answer for, but it is surely not unreasonable that they would seek to convert tribes from religions that encouraged cannibalism (as in Polynesia) or the ritual mutilation of female sex organs (as in much of black Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rituals And Rhythms | 5/3/1993 | See Source »

...home in Beulaville these days, Vickie says things are pretty much back to normal. "Bobby hasn't picked up the basketball since we've been back," she says. On the other hand, he hasn't chopped up his Slam Dunk board either. After all, it just might come in handy: Vickie has entered him in the contest again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Coming Close, So Close | 4/19/1993 | See Source »

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