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Practicing her imitation of Dave DeBusschere, Fulton pumped in her 30-ft. High-arching swish time after time last night, tallying a game-high 23 points, 21 of them in the second half...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Women Outshoot SMU Cagers, 74-57 | 3/4/1977 | See Source »

...party had climaxed at about 12:30 a.m., when a contingent of Wellesley women who had flushed into the room with the studied elan and fragrant swish of social breeding abandoned us for the bus back home or the rooms of hospitable Harvard students. The stoned still demanded drinks at the bar and barked when they were not available, the girl with the eye on her shirt had been convinced to keep on dancing, and even the boy with the tired black hat on his head continued to dance angularly with the girl I still...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: No Deposit, No Return | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

...baskets by Eliot's leading scorer Dave Rogers (11 points) made the score 40-39. And Leverett was suddenly trailing after Curry put up another bomb from mid-court. A swish with 14 seconds left by Lewis sent the game into overtime...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: Leverett Tops Eliot, 51-46, Snaring Basketball Crown | 3/18/1976 | See Source »

Watching my first Harvard football game, I couldn't believe my eyes. After years of watching Bill Emper intercept passes, swish the corner shot and turn over the double play as No. 22, the new number just didn't fit. To forget the number that had broken so many of my tackles in high school practice was impossible...

Author: By Richard S. Lee, | Title: Bill Emper: Still His Hometown's Hero | 1/16/1976 | See Source »

Many gay terms for sexual styles and tastes are putdowns. Besides nellies, effeminate gay males are called twinkies, sissies or queens; they do their drinking in vanilla bars, swish joints or fluff parlors. The all-purpose term queen is used in many combinations: a drag queen wears women's clothes, and a chicken queen (or chicken hawk) prefers sex with underage boys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Crossing Signals | 9/8/1975 | See Source »

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