Word: hula
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turns into hundreds of tiny shrimps (a magnifying glass is included). By the time these are eaten up. the instant fish are ready for life in a bigger tank and a grown-up diet. The instant fish kit ($2.98) is produced by Wham0 Mfg. Co.-the entrepreneurs of the Hula Hoop...
Sophomore year also marked the coming of the hula-hoop to Radcliffe and the coming of the frisbee to the River banks...
...shares blame. Handed $10 million by Congress in 1960 to launch the center, the State Department simply turned it over to the University of Hawaii without guidance. Though first-rate in a few fields, such as tropical agriculture and marine biology, the university was best known for a summer hula course, low faculty pay and an uninspired board of regents. Critics charge that President Laurence H. Snyder, who in the words of one faculty member "came out here to enjoy semiretirement and polish kukui nuts," mainly saw a way to polish up his lackluster campus with Government money...
...Rockefeller tucked a frangipani blossom behind his ear and finger-dipped poi and lomi-lomi salmon. California Democrat Pat Brown hoisted his considerable self onto a surfboard and got spectacularly dunked in the blue Pacific. North Carolina Democrat Terry Sanford rode water skis, Massachusetts Republican John Volpe wiggled a hula, Idaho Republican Robert Smylie and Hawaii Republican William Quinn paddled an outrigger canoe. It was the 53rd Governors' Conference, and the 31 Democrats and 16 Republicans who showed up in Honolulu last week leaned heavily...
Unfortunately, Mr. Storrer's valiant efforts are over balanced by Mr. Gilbert's somewhat witless book. Of all the G and S satires, Patience is undoubtedly the most dated and least funny. The poetry of the pre-Raphaelite aesthetics is about as current as the hula-hoop. And, with only a few notable exceptions, the frenetic efforts of this year's troupe simply cannot disguise Bab's droning...