Word: hoop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...before Saxbe got wind of it. He was enraged. "I do not know who has stirred up the people of Ohio to threaten me to vote for Haynsworth or face retaliation," he said. Declaring his independence from all outside pressures, Saxbe added: "I will not jump through a hoop for industrial fat cats or labor leaders," and in the end he voted no. So did Oregon's Mark Hatfield, who angrily complained that conservatives had threatened to oppose him in the next primary...
...missing members are Ho and Nguyen Chi Thanh, the North's second-ranking military man, who died in 1967. There were always divisions and differences, but Ho helped keep them submerged by the force of his personality and, in his declining years, by his mere presence. "He was the hoop that held the staves of the barrel in round," says Pike. "Now that hoop is gone." As a result, fissures are likely to appear more frequently. The aim will remain the same?unifying Viet Nam under Hanoi's control?but the five contenders are likely to differ on the means...
...singers. Beverly Sills stood encased in a fabric column as the doll in The Tales of Hoffmann, while the stage temperature registered 160 degrees-later she threw up and nearly collapsed. Elisabeth Schwarzkopf had to be carried to the wings after singing Der Rosenkavalier in a heavy hoop skirt. Cincinnati Zoo history is replete with disputes between singers and kamikaze bats, suicidal moths, unhousebroken monkeys and pigeons that expressed their opinion of performances in the only way available to pigeons...
...basketball, sixth-place Leverett House dealt Winthrop one of its two losses last Friday in a hoop thriller, 47-46. Steve Hosea sank a free throw with two seconds left to give Leverett...
With 4:38 remaining, Gallagher tied the game for the fourth time on two free throws. Again, the Crimson could not get the go-ahead hoop, and after Peters scored for the Elis, Yale began to stall effectively. Harvard was forced to make mistakes and commit fouls, and the Big Blue netted eight consecutive points to assure victory...