Word: hula
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...news had to be gathered at airport ceremonies or palace interviews. Correspondent Prendergast, for example, was all too aware of the spreading American craze for hula hoops by discovering one whirling about in Johannesburg, encircling his own nine-year-old daughter...
...home. Prime Minister Kishi of Japan got one for his 62nd birthday, and a Belgian expedition setting out for the Antarctic announced it was taking 20 along to keep its members fit and happy. Not since the Yo-yo had a U.S. craze spread so far so fast. The hula hoop had circled the globe...
...reasoned, the quickest way to get a fad started was to set the intellectuals to doing it. First intellectual to have her picture snapped inside a hoop: Franchise (Bonjour Tristesse) Sagan. With shapely entertainers getting into the act, Saint-Phalle had another fear: that the church might find the hula movement erotic and condemn...
...only Communist state to succumb to the latest U.S. export-the shortage of hoops has become critical. Complained one youth wjeekly: "If the Ministry of Light Industry and the Chamber of Artisans do not embark upon the production of hoops, we will be seriously delayed in hula hoop progress, especially on the international level...
Hips, Neck & Knees. In Germany such celebrities as Max Schmeling and his ex-movie actress wife Anny Ondra have posed twirling what the Germans call Swing Reifen, Sport Reifen, Hula Reifen or Hulahupp. A Hanover store increased its sales by offering to deliver well-wrapped hoops after nightfall to childless couples who were too sheepish to carry them home. In Finland there are hula marathons that set contestants to twirling hoops about the hips, neck and knees all at once. In Japan, where some 3.000.000 hoops have been sold, people queued up in Tokyo department stores to buy tickets enabling...