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Archie didn't intend to take a varsity sport in the winter, but he went down to the gym one day just to throw the ball through the ol' hoop a few times. The basketball coach saw him working out and begged him to come out for the team. Well, conscience is Archie's Archilles heel. He went out for the team, and played first-string forward...
...preserve neutrality, the paper has embargoed such coverage as action photographs ("showing pictures of violence just adds fuel to the fire") and does not run copy that is considered inflammatory. Says A. H. ("Hoop") Tebault Jr., 29, who took over the paper after his father's death last year: "We are in favor of local problems being solved locally...
Sublime Chaos. By contrast with the cock-a-hoop mood of a few years back, most Russians now seem bitterly resigned to the shortages, discomforts and joyless conformity of life as they now know it. In the cities all winter, housewives have had to wait interminably in line for potatoes, macaroni, flour, coal and coarse, gritty brown bread; in some areas, where bread ran out, they have heeded Marie Antoinette's apocryphal advice and queued for cookies and cake instead. Asked recently how he thought 1964 would turn out, one Muscovite replied dryly: "Worse than 1963, but better than...
This year's team is the first in several years not to have a winning record. Most recent Yardling hoop teams have won nine or ten of their thirteen games...
...consonants and on only two vowel sounds: "I told Jonny that when two big round o's get together they look at each other and say 'oo!' and I taught him short a as in cat. Then I figured out sentences-A kangaroo has a hoola hoop. A rat and a fat raccoon. Dad has a bamboo hat. Can I pat a baboon...