Word: yo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ability to speak Swahili. His principal contribution to the men's basketball team consisted of assaulting opposing players near the basket. I stand by the moniker. But Carter's friends found the phrase hilarious, and all day they greeted Carter with "Hey, how's it going, Human Foul?" and "Yo Foul! What...
...Yo-Yo Master...
...title of Pico Iyer's fine, rich and heady first novel, Cuba and the Night (Knopf; 234 pages; $22), comes from a line of poetry written by Josa Mart?: "Dos patrias tengo yo: Cuba y la noche" (Two fatherlands have I: Cuba and the night). The implication being, and it is one the novel endorses, that when the sun goes down, principles crumble away, loyalties falter, certainties dissolve. The dichotomy and the dilemma are all the stronger, one imagines, if you are not a Cuban. Iyer, who occasionally writes essays for Time, conjures up Cuba as a kind of permanent...
...attempt to become a living yo-yo by indulging in bungee jumping: I'm just glad the string didn't break...
...exclusive rights to sell Duncan yo-yos in Israel: My partner and I just called them up and they gave them to us. After two weeks, my partner went into the army and left me with a thousand yo-yos. I made a lot of money. People would stop me in the street and say, "Hey, aren't you the yo-yo man?" They never knew a yo-yo could do more than just go up and down before then...