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Word: stancil (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1972-1972
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...Stancil Johnson, a long-haired Santa Monica psychiatrist who serves as Frisbee's official historian, has an apparently sober explanation for the disks' popularity. They are, he says, "the perfect marriage between man's greatest tool-his hand-and his greatest dream -to fly." But even Johnson is hard-pressed to account for the latest development on the Frisbee front. Among the crowds at Copper Harbor was a bevy of "froupies," short for Frisbee groupies. They too seemed to want to have a fling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Flipped Disks | 7/17/1972 | See Source »

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