Word: hooped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Justices decided that it had a compelling interest in limiting the media's right to picture U.S. currency. The case involved a suit filed by Time Inc. after Government agents informed the company that a full-color 1981 Sports Illustrated cover showing $100 bills pouring through a basketball hoop was a violation of law. To prevent counterfeiting, federal law requires that publishers depict bills only in black and white and at less than 75% or more than 150% of actual size. The court turned down Time Inc.'s argument that the right of free expression was improperly restricted...
...true one (I can swear to it), about a father and a son in a playground twelve years ago, in the spring, around noon. The boy was five. He had a basketball, which he dribbled off his toes half the time, and which he kept shooting at the hoop-underhand, both hands, straining to reach the rim. The father sat on a bench and watched. The boy kept at it. Then some bigger boys sauntered over, snatched the ball away and shot around, leaving the five-year-old watching...
...noisy, feverish, high-pitched, somewhat of an emotional climate," says Walter M. Cabot '55, president of the company. The staff's favorite football team is the Los Angeles Raiders, and black-and-silver caps dot the heads of investors, some of whom take advantage of a nearby Nerf basketball hoop to burn off the tension...
That trio was was an integral part of the finest Harvard men's hoop team in recent history. The Crimson recorded a 15-11 overall record and a 9-5 Ivy mark. Harvard's second-place Ivy record, one-game behind champion Princeton, tied the club's best-ever league finish...
That's about as well as we've played all year," said Cornell Coach lam Miller, who in four years has brought the Big Red to the forefront of Ivy hoop...