Word: balle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paul Unruh, a six foot, four inch sophomore with a crew haircut and a hot hand, drew the applause of the 2600 spectators by his effortless ball handling and never-miss set shooting. He scored 21 points for the evening's high total. Unruh clicked off the first basket, and it was he who grabbed the ball off his own backboard at the final buzzer...
Shortly thereafter the New York State Appelate Court ruled that there was no Santa Claus. And that is the way the ball bounces...
...phychological break of the game came at that time, when Hauptfuhrer went up for a rebound with three Tufts men, inadvertently knocking out captain Bob Cooney in the struggle for the ball. The ensuing "boo" inspired the wrong team, as the Crimson surged ahead, sparked by Prior and Hauptfuhrer...
...somebody was General Eisenhower. Before the conversational ball had really started rolling, Ike grabbed it and hurled it right down the political alley. The nation, said Ike, needs new and dynamic leadership. It faces great peril and it will require a crusading spirit of deed and sacrifice if it is to win through...
...predominantly Tory press have felt that the Socialist government is gunning for them, taking away newsprint so they'll have less space to criticize Labor. The proprietors have also heard the whisper of mutiny from below. It was the National Union of Journalists that started the parliamentary ball rolling for a Royal Commission to investigate whether Britain's press is monopolistic. Now that the commission has settled down to work, the press isn't so alarmed. Oxford's Sir William David Ross, the chairman, is a gentleman and a scholar, and no man to let Labor...