Word: balled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Each branch of the spruce was tied to the trunk. The 11-ft. ball was shaped by hand, contained with burlap, hog wire, a rope girdle and an oaken tub. Mrs. Myers insisted that the work crew, neighbors and reporters stay for lunch. For three days they worked and ate. There were vegetable soup and chicken corn soup, hot dogs and chocolate cake, green salad, and pears and peaches canned by Mrs. Myers. The neighbors came out every day to watch as their old friend the spruce was gussied up to go to the city...
...dwindled even further than it had already. At week's end a strike by oil workers had cut the country's normal daily production of 6 million bbl. to about half that total. Then, at the suggestion of National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, the President invited George Ball, an Under Secretary of State in both the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, to join the National Security Council temporarily as a special consultant. His job: to prepare a long-range option paper on Iran and the Persian Gulf...
Administration aides bristled when asked if Ball was in fact working on a blueprint for a "post-Shah Iran," but that surely was part of his assignment. Another part: to ponder the impact of Iran's instability on nearby Saudi Arabia. U.S. officials are exceedingly worried about the vulnerability of this sparsely populated, semifeudal monarchy, which possesses the world's largest proven oil reserves (150 billion bbl.). Admits one Administration official: "It gives me the willies just thinking about Saudi Arabia...
Down by as many as thirteen points, the J.V. fought back to tie the game once again, 69-69. The lead see-sawed back and forth until the Classics, ahead 82-81 and in possession of the ball, called a time-out with 47 seconds left...
Carlesimo started out in college ball by riding the bench on a Fordham team in 1968-69 that was captained by Harvard coach Frank McLaughlin. After graduating, he served as an assistant coach for three years at Fordham. Last night, however, McLaughlin had to take a back seat to Carlesimo...