Word: swooshed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outside the U.S., fast- rising Nike dominated the American market. The company was started in 1972 by current chairman Philip Knight, 52, a University of Oregon graduate, and Bill Bowerman, 78, his former track coach, who used a waffle iron to make their first soles. (The now famous Swoosh trademark on the side of the shoes was designed by an art student for $35.) Nike's sales sprinted from $270 million in 1980 to $920 million in 1984. But the firm, named after the Greek goddess of victory, had trouble managing its explosive growth. Not long after the company tried...
...hard to sing as fluidly with lyrics." He will slap his thumb against his chest to make a bass tone as his hand becomes the snare drum. The mike, rubbed against his close- cut beard, can be the chug of a train or the swoosh of a samba beat. Whether in a Beatles number like Drive My Car or a dazzling reworking of a '60s classic like Good Lovin', the point for McFerrin "isn't to be instrumental but to tell a story. Like an actor, I get into character...
...remember back to the early 1970s when my dad came home one day carrying a pair of red shoes with a white swoosh on the side. Nothing unusual there, I thought...
About two years later, my dad came home with another new pair of shoes. These also had waffles, only this time they were blue with a yellow swoosh and he called them his "boat shoes...
...target, fall back a little and make piles of money for their inventors. Nike of Beaverton, Ore., first hit it big manufacturing running shoes (1982 footwear sales: $580 million). In 1980 the company got into running apparel, and sales of shorts and shirts bearing the company's famous "swoosh" mark have sprinted from $8 million to a projected $115 million this year...