Word: hops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tony took his first instruction last week in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, and for two sets it looked as if he had a chance of upsetting his master. His serve had a wicked hop; his volleys were too sharp to handle. He went out in front 11-9, 6-3. Across the net, Pancho looked off form. Playing it pretty, he sliced and chopped, tried to keep Tony off balance and never got unwound himself...
...range is not long enough to carry TV programs across the Atlantic in one hop, but relay stations using Greenland and Iceland as stepping stones can do the trick. Other continents could be reached in the same way without too much difficulty. TV Pioneer Allen B. Du Mont stated at the conference that there is now no electronic reason why nearly all the world should not watch the same TV program at the same time...
...teens he had won the national championship in the hop, skip, and jump, setting an American record in the process...
...next Harvard and most of the world heard of Connolly was a month later, when, with nine other American athletes, he showed up in Athens and proceeded to win the hop, skip, and jump--the first event on the first day of the modern Olympics...
...Sneaking up on Ohio State's highly touted team, Stanford's Indians scored in 13 Plays after they first got their hands on the ball, held All-America Howard ("Hop-along") Cassady helpless in midfield and upset one of the country's best teams...