Word: whammed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last, the inevitable caught up with Oakland. The scoreboard clock read only three minutes to play when Chicago's Bobby Hull swooped in from left wing and scooped up the puck. Whoosh! he flashed across the Oakland blue line. Wham! he absorbed a brutal check from Seal Defender George Swarbrick that seemed to stagger him. Hull's shoulders sagged, his curved stick came up, and for the briefest instant, Swarbrick relaxed. Whap! Hull's stick slashed downward; 25 ft. away, Goalie Hodge could not even begin to react as the rock-hard rubber disk, traveling at better...
...least moan merchants who have been stuck with unsalable stocks of Yo-yos, Davy Crockett hats and Batman costumes. Until six weeks ago, the same could have been said of Hula Hoops, which in a profitable six months in 1958 racked up worldwide sales of 70 million. But Wham-O Manufacturing Corp., which started the first craze, had a hunch that hoops were good for another twirl. The novelty that was needed was noise. So Wham-O put half-a-dozen ¼-in.-diameter ball bearings inside each hollow hoop to give it a whirry sound, brightened the plastic colors...
...mess of footage. Broadway's Forum was a head-spinning comedy of erotic errors in which three men and two women paired off in most of the possible permutations. A direct director could have reduced complexity to clarity; but Director Lester, with his scatty continuity and wham-bam camerantics, has about the same effect on this picture as a dachshund puppy might have on a game of chess...
...according to James Van Alen, 63, president of the tennis Hall of Fame, is the sport's 85-year-old scoring system, which belabors spectators with archaic terminology ("love," "deuce," "advantage"), places no time limit on the duration of a match, and encourages a brand of play-the wham-slam "big game"-that often makes the match a bore to watch. Van Alen's answer: a totally different scoring system called VASSS (for Van Alen Simplified Scoring System), which he invented in 1957 but really tried for the first time in a pro tournament last summer. Last week...
...from the throats of Cleveland fans. With the ball on the New York 17, Quarterback Ryan called a "Bread and Butter 19"-a slant play off tackle. Picking his way daintily through a tiny hole, Brown exploded at full speed into the Giants' secondary. Two defenders hit him-wham! wham!-at the 6-yd. line. Somehow, Jimmy kept his feet. Painfully, in a kind of slow-motion, he dragged them to the three, planted a foot, gave a mighty lunge and pitched forward, hugging the ball to his chest. His knees landed at the one; the ball landed...