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The Ocean Beach Rag reports, Four women with hula-hoops all received tickets and fines from an Officer R. Schultz.
Hooping.org | Blog | Ocean Beach Fire Hoopers Hit With Fines 2009
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I like doing it because I get to share the love, my love of hula-hoops.
Hooping.org | Blog | Waterloo Hooper Takes It To The Streets 2009
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- Lacking straightforward ethno-religious-linguistic boundary lines along which to divide, many residents of Montreal take to carrying hula-hoops with them to demarcate their own personal sovereign spaces.
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Their hula-hoops were on fire, and they had two safety people ready at either end of the practice.
Hooping.org | Blog | Ocean Beach Fire Hoopers Hit With Fines 2009
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It was the long sigh after the war-weary 1940s, a time for hula-hoops and Frisbees, a golf-loving president, an era when baseball catchers were the only people to wear their caps backwards and 'don't-ask-don't-tell' was 'don't mince and stay-in-the closet.'
Tom Alderman: 1950s: The Not-So-Silent Generation Tom Alderman 2010
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She doesn't like to be touched much and her friends here in Whimsytown liked to call her “hula-hoop” because we all have our different hula-hoops of space but hers seemed larger than others.
Whimsytown, USA Melissa Ann Chadburn 2011
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Sounds like a pretty good business deal to me — hula-hoops are fun enough as is, but a Marisa Tomei manufactured hula-hoop?
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It was the long sigh after the war-weary 1940s, a time for hula-hoops and Frisbees, a golf-loving president, an era when baseball catchers were the only people to wear their caps backwards and 'don't-ask-don't-tell' was 'don't mince and stay-in-the closet.'
Tom Alderman: 1950s: The Not-So-Silent Generation Tom Alderman 2010
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I was getting people hoops all of the time and then I set up this little business of hula-hoops.
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It was the long sigh after the war-weary 1940s, a time for hula-hoops and Frisbees, a golf-loving president, an era when baseball catchers were the only people to wear their caps backwards and 'don't-ask-don't-tell' was 'don't mince and stay-in-the closet.'
Tom Alderman: 1950s: The Not-So-Silent Generation Tom Alderman 2010
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