Word: hooped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sent out by small electrical vibrators buzzing at the rate of 60 cycles per second, will take some of the burden off the pilot's saturated eyes and ears. A ring of vibrators worn around his waist and buzzing in rapid sequence will fee! like a spinning Hula Hoop. The message would be an effective means of alerting a pilot to a particular danger...
...disappointment in not finding a home, a landlord immediately offered him an apartment. The local Catholic and Protestant clergy, meeting for the first time while preparing for the week, found the experience so agreeable that they have set up monthly conferences. And Lutheran officials are so cock-a-hoop over the results that they want to test their luck in larger communities. Next year a Faith in Life Dialogue is planned for Duluth, the year after for Minneapolis...
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...