Search Details

Word: dunks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Members of the Led Zeppelin toss ice cubes out the windows at passing >| police cruisers and dunk mink-clad women in the swimming pool. Alice Cooper's roadies play nude football in the hallway. The J. Geils Band stages mustard and ketchup orgies in its rooms. Instead of tearing their hair, the hotel's youthful staff (average age: 24) smile benignly. The expanded room service is designed to cater to pimpled artists who prefer milkshakes with their chateaubriands. The crazy has become so commonplace that during an Electric Light Orchestra party recently, a zonked-out groupie was propped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: High at the Hyatt | 9/3/1973 | See Source »

...Broadway and 46th Street Automat, an aging ex-vaudevillian named Edna Thayer belts out tunes like Don't Dunk a Doughnut Unless You Know How to Dunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MERCHANDISING: Rescuing the Automat | 5/28/1973 | See Source »

...Atlanta Hawks hardly knew what hit them. With less than a minute remaining, they were trailing the Los Angeles Lakers by only one point, 96 to 95. Then two dunk shots, three intercepted passes, eight points and 31 sec. later, the Lakers walked off the court with a 104-95 victory. The Hawks need not have felt victimized. All season long Los Angeles has been terrorizing the entire National Basketball Association with the Laker lunge, a strong finishing kick that leaves opponents panting and fans chanting for more. The win over the Hawks, in fact, gave the Lakers 21 victories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Celtic Lakers | 12/27/1971 | See Source »

...only time the Crimson had the psychological advantage was before the tip-off. Dartmouth has violated the no-dunk rule in its pre-game warm-ups, and the Crimson's Jim Fitzsimmons made the technical and Floyd Lewis tallied the ensuing jumpshot...

Author: By Jonathan P. Carlson, (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON) | Title: Dartmouth Overwhelms Basketball Team, 86-68 | 12/9/1971 | See Source »

...They used to dunk the cases of beer in Sheepshead Bay to prove it was fresh off the boat," said...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: NOTES ON A CELEBRATIONMoon Over Miami | 12/9/1970 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | Next