Word: balling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Floyd Wilson will continue to slog away with his patient, ball control offense, hoping to get shots for Gallagher and Royer. Sixth man Jerry O'Neil, the shooting machine freshman captain, bombed very accurately against pre-season opponents Brandeis and Connecticut; Wilson may be hard put to keep the 6'4" sophomore on the sidelines...
From Herman Melville's Captain Vere (who hanged Billy Budd) to Herman Wouk's Captain Queeg (who rolled ball bearings during the Caine mutiny), naval literature has teemed with tales of rumbustious skippers and mutinous crewmen. Of late, the U.S. Navy has pitched and rolled to a real-life story that has all the elements of legend: a destroyer in war-torn waters, a high-handed captain called Marcus Aurelius Arnheiter, a roster of rebellious junior officers respectively named Hardy, Generous and Belmonte, and a precipitate change of command that reverberated clear to the Secretary of the Navy...
...first real test of the season will be the Army match on Dec. 9. "Army's always tough," Barnaby explained. "They really pound the hell out of the ball." Besides Army, the matches against Amherst and Navy give Barnaby most concern...
...multiple choice answers never capture crucial nuances in subject response. Take a hypothetical attempt to measure the education of southern Negroes by asking if they have encyclopedias. A yes response could mean a high literacy; it could mean encyclopedias are status symbols, or local salesmen are on the ball...
...Quincy-Timothy Dwight soccer game was a stalemate from the opening kick-off to the last of two overtime periods. Neither team could score or be scored upon in a stiff wind which kept the ball in Quincy territory for almost the whole second half...