Word: hoopes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...believe that the nation and the world are ready for a new Hula Hoop era." Venturing that brave prediction is Barry Shapiro, 39, executive vice president and general manager of the Wham-O Mfg. Co., the San Gabriel, Calif., toy and sporting-goods maker that introduced the hoop in 1958. During a slightly mad six-month period 25 years ago, as many as 120 million hoops were sold around the world. A 1967 version called the Shoop-Shoop Hula Hoop was filled with ballbearings to make a swishing sound. It briefly sparked renewed interest, but failed to reignite...
...less flamboyant, but ended up in a tortuous love affair with a boy 15 years her junior. Pianists Sven and Andrew seemed normal enough behind the keyboard but suffered a manic addiction to killer basketball, in which the object was not so much to get the ball in the hoop as to tackle whoever had it while ripping to shreds as much clothing as possible. Others were downright eccentric...
Older women. A sub-division of the trend-setters, they smoke British cigarettes and seduce proctors. They are not older in years, merely more weary of the world and more prone to peasant skirts, husky laughs, and hoop earrings. They never join the trend-setters for mid-Yard tanning sessions, and they call their prep school boy friends "lovers...
...from the floor in spite of his early dry spell and adding four straight free throws for a total of 32 points. In addition, he came up with eight rebounds and two steals. Much of his performance was vintage Fleming, popping from outside and taking the hall to the hoop with equal effectiveness...
...sheer power, has to be that of Fleming, crouched low, receiving a pass up high on the right post, maybe 15 feet from the basket. Sensing an opening. Fleming feints right, but flashes left, toward the basket. He takes the ball past his opponent and drives straight to the hoop, laying it off the glass and in. In Harvard basketball history, no one has ever possessed the offensive tools that Donald Fleming has used to become the school's all time leading scorer, amassing close to 1800 points with one game to go in his varsity career...