Word: hoopes
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...nailed to the wall by a busy carpenter; he scalped another teacher's toupee with his fork in a cafeteria, prepared to eat it, mumbling "I didn't order a salad." His most recent catastrophe: while manfully trying to retrieve a basketball, he falls into the hoop and gets wedged fast...
...that they transfer their love and affection and loyalty from China to Malaya." "What matters," says Tan, "is the creation of a Sino-Malay spirit," and he thinks this can be done by giving the Chinese squatters a grubstake in the land. "A land title," says Tan, "is the hoop that holds the barrel together...
Imitating an old Hopi Indian fertility rite, 300 eager, but determined Wellesley seniors weathered competition from outsiders and other obstacles to take part in the annual May Day hoop race yesterday...
...highest in Waban natives early this morning, in the traditional battle for the class's first husband, foremost in the thoughts of every maiden filly entered. Every year just before the hoop classic word leaks out that groups of maidens have put their heads together to set up a fix, in which some girls will block while one girl rolls through to victory...
...clear hard track faced almost 400 Wellesley seniors this morning in the 69th running of the annual Waban Hoop Race. Several hundred Harvard men had already gathered before the 7 a.m. post time brought the fillies to the wire...