Word: hooping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lowell was third in the House hoop league with a 9-5 record. Eliot (8-6) was fourth, Winthrop (7-7) fifth, Adams and Leverett (each 5-9) knotted for sixth, and Dudley (2-12) placed last...
...other hoop tests, Dunster edged out Lowell, 36 to 35, dropping the losers out of the top spot in the A league. The Funster B five smacked the Bellboys, 51 to 36, to move into the circuit lead...
...Hoop-dee-Doo." After his announcement last February, the black-haired young (44) seventh-term Congressman began stumping the state on an eight-speech-a-day schedule. His "principal issue" was dramatized in a song to the tune of Hoop-dee-doo, which proclaimed: "Go with Gore-Albert Gore. He's wise and able and he's just forty-four . . ." Tennessee politicians and pundits began to say he would beat McKellar...
...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...