Word: hops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whatever the evening occasion, Beck is usually ready by midnight to pull on his short nightgown ("Although," he says, "at $50,000 a year-just in salary-I ought to be able to buy silk pajamas without anybody thinking as goddam thing about it") to hop into bed for half an hour's reading, e.g., Harper's Bazaar, before his frenetic day ends...
Peripatetic Peddlers. The pros peddle their skill with the peripatetic energy of oldtime vaudevillians. The National Basketball Association's eight teams keep on the hop from November through March, play one-night stands from Fort Wayne to Syracuse, from New York to Minneapolis. They even find time and resources to please crowds in nonleague cities as far off as Miami...
...always liked to hang around together at night. Sometimes we'd play the pinballs at the Spa, but usually we got kicked out. Then someone would say 'Let's take a walk' and pretty soon we'd end up down near the railroad tracks. Then, we'd hop a freight and clip a case of beer and get high...
...Hop, Skip, Jump. With minor local variations, the basic program is the same in all cities practicing integration. In Detroit, for instance, the school system sends out special counselors to help parents with their new blind babies. At three or four, the children go to a preprimary school, where they learn to run, hop, skip, play at sand tables and even fingerpaint. Later, they learn to read and write in Braille and to use a typewriter. By the sixth or seventh grade, they are ready to take their place in normal classes...
...those days, Parry put the shot just like everyone else. Standing at the rear of the ring, he would rock back on his right leg, swing his left leg in front of him for balance, hop forward across the circle, and shove the shot for all he was worth...