Word: hops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York or bust," was the motto of most, who grew progressively more uneasy under darkening skies yesterday Meanwhile their friends back at the College were busting without even an attempt at the New York hop...
...project, set about collecting funds (goal: $10 million). Selling the Navy on the idea was easy; Admiral Nimitz is a natural-history fan himself. Last week Dr. Dillon Ripley, Yale zoologist, was on his way to the Memorial's future headquarters at Guam. From there he would island-hop to pick out bases; eventually he would wind up in Tokyo, where he hoped to win General MacArthur's support...
...south; they did not have enough rice; angry mobs fomented violence. In four riotous days last week 59 Korean policemen were killed at Taegu in the U.S. zone; 60 were wounded and another 100 reported "missing." Unsigned handbills in Seoul read: "Down with American Imperialism," and "Why only one hop [handful] of rotten foreign corn? Corn is for horses in the United States. If death is inevitable, let us have a bowl of rice before it comes...
...ragged army in one of the most famous of all Latin American soldier songs. U.S. soldiers, better heeled than the cockroach, gave ear, took up the marijuana habit. Later they smoked the reefers in Panama, and when World War II took them to bases in Ecuador, the hop habit they brought was the answer to a medicine man's prayers...
...field, the tackle coach is instructing eleven tackles in the refinements of "forearm shivers." At the other end, twelve brutish guards are doing "duck walks." Nine T-formation quarterbacks, never far from the centers, are working on a half-dozen different types of pivot-the crossover, reverse, reverse-deep, hop-around, slice and crossfire...