Word: dunking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dunk my cracker in a glass of milk; not only does this make the cracker tastier, but it aids in softening the fingernails prior to biting them...
Except in the South, carnies know no racial discrimination. The shows that do discriminate, or tolerate "dunk-a-boy" concessions (in which a Negro boy sits on a perch that drops him into water if a customer hits a target with a ball), are considered "dirty." A "clean" show is not necessarily one that has no naked dancing girls-it is simply a show that gives its customers what it promises...
...varsity soundly trounced, by the K.U. freshmen 81-71- and yet he was the happiest man in the jampacked fieldhouse. Not that Phog likes to lose, but it was pure pleasure for him to watch the biggest freshman of them all, Wilton Chamberlain (7 ft. 2 in., 230 Ibs.), dunk in 42 points all by himself. In 39 years of talking tall young men into coming to Kansas for their higher education, Phog Allen has never recruited a more promising student of basketball than "Wilt the Stilt...
...with red carnations, a floral expression of Belair's racing colors-white, red spots, scarlet cap. An inscribed ribbon with this sent through the Woodward connection a slight shudder, quickly repressed by family loyalty. Recalling Ann and Bill's pet names for each other, it read: "From Dunk to Monk...
Everybody knew Frankie-in a way. James D. Norris, millionaire president of the International Boxing Club-which is the heart, pocketbook and sordid soul of American prize fighting-had known him for 20 years. Used to dunk doughnuts with him, as a matter of fact. What did Frankie do for a living? Well, Jim Norris wouldn't know about that. They were just sort of social friends...