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Word: hoopes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Well let me ask you something, Barry Basketball. When was the last time you were at a hoop game? Let alone a Harvard...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Wanted: Hoop Fans | 12/7/1976 | See Source »

Last Saturday night, five seconds after the final buzzer had sounded, signifying the Eagles' narrow 75-71 win over Harvard, Bennifield took the ball, dribbled to the top of the key, took off, and slam-dunked the thing right through the hoop...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Wanted: Hoop Fans | 12/7/1976 | See Source »

Harvard drove right at B.C.'s zone, getting layups and drawing fouls. A three-point play by Hooft at 13:53 and a free throw by Irion brought the lead down to 51-42 before Cobb went temporarily bananas with two straight steal-hoop jobs...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: B.C. Stifles Cagers' Comeback, 75-71 | 12/6/1976 | See Source »

Only two weeks before the made his final decision, he was still seriously considering national hoop powers like Notre Dame, Stanford, Maryland, and South Carolina, along with local schools like Boston College, Holy Cross and Harvard...

Author: By David Clarke, | Title: High School Whiz Beaulieu Turns Down the Big Time, Stays Close to Home to Play Basketball for the Crimson | 11/20/1976 | See Source »

Louisiana Feminist Annabelle Walker, demurely dressed in a hoop skirt and twirling a parasol, demonstrated in favor of the Equal Rights Amendment last year. "A man shies away from an overly aggressive female," warns Gale Childers, who nonetheless has been aggressive enough to be a South Carolina bank branch manager at the age of 30. Alabama State Treasurer Melba Till Allen owes much of her success at the polls to her charming, ultrafeminine manner. Says she, "I don't believe that a woman could win in Alabama if she were not a lady." Yet Allen recently showed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The South/sexes: The Belle: Magnolia and Iron | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

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