Word: schoolyard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...every schoolyard player knows, the dunk is back in college basketball. After a decade of exile prompted by fears that the advantages of the big men would destroy balance, the dunk/slam/stuff has set backboards resonating across the country. Trying to ensure that the equipment-as well as the quality of play-survived the onslaught of a gifted new generation of players, the National Collegiate Athletic Association retained the ban on dunks during warmups. (Regulation-play attrition is high enough: the University of Detroit broke 20 rims, at $30 each, in 27 games.) But it is a niggling constraint...
...reasons but because they are convinced that the old people have money stashed away somewhere -hidden in old shoe boxes, tucked under mattresses. The young hoods operate in raiding teams of three or four, or as many as ten. Typically, they have a morning "shape-up" in a local schoolyard to plan what they call a "crib job," because it is as easy as taking money from a baby...
...cheaper technologies may soon become available. Then the treaty could fall apart as old claims are revived and there is a rush to divide Antarctica's spoils. "If that happens," says one pessimistic U.S. official, "it could make the fishing wars off Iceland look as innocent as a schoolyard scuffle...
...with a few softening touches. The Justices upheld a three-man federal court in the case of Russell Baker of Gibsonville, N.C. Two years ago, as a sixth-grader, he was paddled with a wooden drawer divider for playing with a ball in a proscribed part of the schoolyard. His mother went to court to challenge the North Carolina law that permits teachers to inflict corporal punishment of a "reasonable" nature...
...During a schoolyard fight in San Rafael, Calif., in 1970, Kelly Niles, 11, was hit on the right side of his head and taken by his father to the emergency room of San Francisco's Mt. Zion Hospital. Though no evidence of a skull fracture was found on X rays, Kelly was perspiring heavily, and he was pale and groggy. Still, a staff pediatrician sent him home. Later that evening, Kelly's father grew concerned and returned him to the hospital. This time doctors decided to operate and removed a large blood clot pressing on Kelly...