Word: balle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...game ended with the score tied at 61 points. Then, in the second overtime period, with the Oilers leading by one point, somebody threw a firecracker. Thinking it was the final gun, the Oilers walked off the floor. A Kentucky player playfully grabbed the ball, and shot a basket. Then the regular gun sounded, ending the game. Hundreds of fans swarmed on to the floor, to find out what had happened. The answer was simple: Kentucky had won the game...
...sitting on a sofa, with his arm snugly around a smiling Tom Dewey. Dewey aides announced a press conference for later in the day; the rumor spread that not only Ed Martin but New Jersey's Governor Driscoll would be there. The wise guys said: "There goes the ball game...
Above Water. Eversharp Inc. (ball pen), which lost $3,416,985 last year (TIME, May 24), was once more able to total its earnings above water. In the first quarter ended May 31, Chairman Martin L. Straus II reported last week, Eversharp netted $318,618 after taxes...
...came tomorrow, where would it catch U.S. stockpiles of strategic materials? "Behind the eight ball," mourned U.S. Munitions Board Chairman Thomas J. Hargrave last week...
...Ravenna, Ohio, Ballplayer Harold Hartung dreamed that he was chasing a fly ball, chased it right out his second-floor bedroom window...