Word: hops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fourth year, was bitter. "I expected you," said he, coldly fixing his eyes on a human skull resting in a bowl of roses, "to make some mistakes your first year. We all do. I got in with some thoroughly objectionable . . . men who ran a mission to hop-pickers in the long vac. But you, my dear Charles . . . have gone straight hook, line and sinker, into the very worst set in the University. . . . There's that chap Sebastian Flyte you seem inseparable from. . . . [He] looks odd to me. ... Of course, they're an odd family...
...from his car, recovered the coat when the thief dropped it, got back to his car just in time to see the thief driving off in it. Near Grafton, Australia, Farmer William Thompson found a kan garoo caught in a fence, put his vest on it, merrily watched it hop away in style, realized later that the kangaroo had ?5 in its new vest pocket...
Twelve years ago the nation's race tracks cracked down on the widespread practice of "hopping" horses; into limbo went the old standbys, heroin and cocaine, which mandatory saliva and urine tests showed up crystal clear. Inventive horsemen-and few are short on imagination-promptly began a painstaking search for a magic hop that would leave no telltale evidence. Stories and jokes about new nasal sprays and rectally-administered stimulants soon became standard race track shop talk...
Probably not since the days of the first transatlantic flyers had an air hop started with such a swash of publicity. The Army Air Transport Command, inaugurating weekly round-the-world flights, took along a reporter from all three press associations...
...calling for nothing but La Bamba. As they do it at Giro's. La Bamba is actually a Mexican version of the Cuban rumba, but more of a bouncy folk dance. At one point the girl swings away from her partner, does a brief waltz step with a hop and a tap thrown in, while picking up her skirts and swishing them back & forth in flirty fashion. Nobody bothers about a ribbon on the floor, or singing while they dance, as the jarachos...