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Word: dunker (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shredded Strings. This season's array of gifted college players-not to mention dunkers-is among the biggest in basketball history. U.C.L.A.'s Marques Johnson, winner of the new Adolph Rupp Trophy as the nation's top player, is a dunker nonpareil. James Hardy has shredded the strings so often for San Francisco that Dr. J. comparisons follow him like autograph hounds. His teammate 7-ft. Bill Cartwright has a soft shooting touch and an altitudinous, B-52 dunk that conjures up memories of U.C.L.A.'S Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the man whose size and skills were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Year of the Superstuffers | 3/21/1977 | See Source »

...goes around plucking butts from smokers' mouths. One vigilante tactic: when a fellow guest lights up after dinner, an antismoker dunks his hand in the smoker's water glass. "What the...!" expostulates the smoker. "You don't like me polluting your water," replies the grim dunker. "I don't like you polluting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: SMOKING: FIGHTING FIRE WITH IRE | 1/12/1976 | See Source »

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