Word: basket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...along until Firth and Baker began to get the range for Standish. Three quick scores in the fourth period closed the gap to 27-26 and brought a Navy time out, but Standish faltered and the game ended with Hull stealing the ball and going in under the Standish basket for his seventh field goal of the contest...
...without their complaints. Croaked one of Sammy Wolf's converts last week: "This basketball, it gives them all heart trouble. Ya see, a horse race, it starts, then bing, it's over in a few seconds. But the basketball starts, and boom, one team makes a basket. Boom, the second team makes a basket. Boom, the first team makes a basket. And this goes on for an hour. I tell ya, they're all getting heart trouble...
Walking in his socks while his" mustachios curled magnificently skyward, the Maharaja carried a takri (basket) of earth from the site of the shrine. While thousands of his subjects chanted: "Sat Sri Akal!" ("Truth is eternal!"), the Prince bore his burden on his turbaned head in token of his total humility...
...called time out, but the Bellboy drive continued until Lowell went ahead by three points. Three seconds before the final buzzer, with F-G holding a scant one point lead, Fred Donahoe tossed a long, low shot into the basket to give Lowell the victory...
Donahoe Shoots Winning Basket...