Word: whammed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wham! Pearl Harbor. Half the world away from Otaru, in a bumpy California crossroads hamlet called Cressy (pop. 400), chunky little Chiyoko Suzuki began her rehearsals for Flower Drum just 28 years ago. Youngest of a fair-sized Japanese-American family (a brother twelve years older, and two sisters, eight and ten years older), "Chiby" (Squirt) Suzuki was a loner from the start-a kid who seemed to figure she was expected to take care of herself. She went to a two-room schoolhouse, rode horses bareback, learned to swim in irrigation canals on her father's 100-acre...
...Then, wham!" says she. "Pearl Harbor...
...started all the current whoopee in hoops are Toymakers Arthur Melin and Richard Knerr, 33-year-old owners of the Wham-O Manufacturing Co. of San Gabriel. Calif. Last March, while attending a New York toy fair, they got a tip from an acquaintance on a wooden hoop popular in Australia. Melin and Knerr turned out a score of wooden hoops, did not like them, started experimenting in plastics. In May they made some 3-ft. hoops out of brightly colored polyethylene tubing. Melin field-tested them on some neighborhood children-and a national fad started. From children...
...partners began mass production of their Hula Hoop, and a dozen companies quickly imitated the Hula Hoop (the name could be registered, but the hoop could not be patented) and cut into Wham-O's monopoly...
...charge-just as a man in bed, hearing his upstairs neighbor drop one shoe, frets sleepily as he listens for the second. The sub skipper waits and waits. Nothing happens. Curiosity becomes overpowering. At length, the curious skipper decides to take just a little peek. Up goes his periscope-wham-the other shoe...