Word: hooped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...talents raised them above purely local acclaim. The standouts made up an odd package of assorted shapes and sizes. Some of them: hoop. Hampered by a so-so team, Chet manages to shake loose an average 29 points a game with set shots from outside, or driving lay-ups. All season he has been right up among the leaders for national scoring honors, and despite his size the pros are already dickering...
...Laborites, cock-a-hoop with the victory, had won with 1) a more attractive candidate (capable Barrister Niall MacDermot), 2) a solid, close-to-the-pocketbook issue in a proposed Tory bill to relax rent controls, 3) a much better political machine. The Tories were inclined to blame most of their troubles on a third candidate, a Junoesque, right-wing independent named Leslie Greene, 31, who campaigned on "I have no faith in the U.S." She siphoned off 1,487 votes, the majority of them presumably from the Tories. But Candidate Greene was not the whole explanation; since the last...
...Sailor, Sense of Humour and Other Stories, by V. S. Pritchett. Saints, scoundrels and scapegoats put nimbly through the short-story hoop by a top critic (TIME...
...Backyard Hoop. A veteran of professional baseball and basketball, Father Sime has always felt a drive to teach his son his own driving urge to excel in sports. As soon as young Dave could handle a basketball there was a backyard hoop. "When I was five," he recalls, "Dad had me out hitting baseballs. Dad always told me to run faster, throw harder, hit farther. He never has been completely satisfied...
Even a fire could not stop Anita Racioppi from winning the 61st annual senior Hoop Race at Wellesley early Saturday morning. With a Fathers Day crowd of 1,000 watching, Anita swept down Tower Court Hill ahead of 200 classmates, all attired in caps and gowns. She is president of the Student Athletic Association...