Word: baric
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Broad-beamed, baric Edmund Gilligan (White Sails Crowding) knows a lot about sailing vessels, good violent storytelling, and wild Irish prose. In The Gaunt Woman his triple talents are contributed to the war effort with a driving energy that sometimes bruises the story and the prose. But the book as a whole has the glow and momentum of a particularly likable Grade B movie...
West Virginia University has a funny-looking basketball team. In a sport where height pays off, it has only one player over 6 ft., Rudy Baric, right guard. Roger Hicks, left forward, is little larger or huskier than a jockey, while Scotty Hamilton, the other forward, is a real fat boy. Compared to most, Center Dick Kesling is virtually a runt. The team's gold-and-blue shirts have white jersey half-sleeves like those worn by British track athletes and give the impression that they were run up by the players' mothers or that the boys forgot...
...which ended last week, little Hicks whisked in shot after shot from mid-floor, fat Hamilton tore around like a wide-open fire engine setting up plays in rich profusion, Kesling was superb at swooping through and sinking layups, and at tournament's end the assembled coaches voted Baric the most valuable player on any of the eight teams competing...
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