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Word: hoops (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Indeed, Mr. Scully, class of '65, can do all sorts of wondrous things with a basketball. He steals it, he dribbles it, he posses it, he grabs it away from fellows several inches taller than his 6 ft. 1 in. stature, and he throws it through the hoop, which after all is the object of the whole affair. For the first few games he was a hit hesitant about his shooting, but in the Crimson's four Ivy games Scully has been the first or second leading scorer in all of them...

Author: By Steven V. Roberts, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 1/28/1963 | See Source »

...into hundreds of tiny shrimps (a magnifying glass is included). By the time these are eaten up. the instant fish are ready for life in a bigger tank and a grown-up diet. The instant fish kit ($2.98) is produced by Wham0 Mfg. Co.-the entrepreneurs of the Hula Hoop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Products: Youth | 6/22/1962 | See Source »

Sophomore year also marked the coming of the hula-hoop to Radcliffe and the coming of the frisbee to the River banks...

Author: By Robert E. Smith, | Title: Satellites, Program For Harvard Shaped Destiny of Class of 1962 | 6/13/1962 | See Source »

...some other West German teen-agers went to the Leipzig Sports Festival in Communist East Germany. One day, passing a stadium exit, Bernd Schmidt was caught in a throng of girls who came pouring from the field after a gymnastic display. Schmidt recalls: "Some were carrying their hoops high over their heads, others were rolling them. Suddenly, someone dropped a hoop over me. Everyone laughed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Germany: Man with a Suitcase | 3/23/1962 | See Source »

Meanwhile, the basketball team (four wins, two losses) enters the tournament of the University of Washington in St. Louis as the lone Eastern representative. The six-college invitational hoop tourney will be played Thursday, Friday, and Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sextet to Meet Western Teams; Quintet to Play in St. Louis | 12/20/1961 | See Source »

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