Word: hoops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This year's team is the first in several years not to have a winning record. Most recent Yardling hoop teams have won nine or ten of their thirteen games...
...consonants and on only two vowel sounds: "I told Jonny that when two big round o's get together they look at each other and say 'oo!' and I taught him short a as in cat. Then I figured out sentences-A kangaroo has a hoola hoop. A rat and a fat raccoon. Dad has a bamboo hat. Can I pat a baboon...
...marching 50 miles in 20 hours, according to the terms of an old Teddy Roosevelt order. The Marines responded. And so, it seemed, did everyone else who could muster up the same kind of spirit it took to swallow gold fish, raid for panties or whirl a hula hoop...
THROUGH THE HOOP (351 pp.)-Michel Del Castillo-Knopf...
...hoop, hreep, hrope!" bellow the R.O.T.C. drill sergeants, and to many U.S. college students the whole idea of uniforms, parades and dull "military science" classes appears more than ever to be preparation for a doughboy war in an age when more academic learning would serve the nation better. The Navy's 53-campus "Holloway" volunteer plan, offering complete scholarships, produces a steady supply of bright young officers, but Air Force R.O.T.C. at 187 schools harvests only 4% of trainees as commissioned officers, and the Army's 247-campus program is notoriously archaic. Among college administrators, who consider...