Word: basket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spectators in New York's Madison Square Garden learned this lesson last Thursday night when Earl "the Pearl" Monroe, who has been playing basketball since his embryonic stage, became "confused" and sank a seven-foot jump shot into the wrong basket just as the game ended. So what, you ask, as long as Monroe's beloved Knicks still won the game? Ah, ignorance is bliss...
Jordan swings into his spacious office, a six-window, high-status corner formerly occupied by the likes of Bob Haldeman and Alexander Haig, but, he insists, the parallel stops there. He loosens his tie, takes a fast look at the in basket, then lopes into the Roosevelt Room for the daily 8 a.m. meeting of senior advisers. He takes his place at the big table, leaving Presidential Counsel Robert Lipshutz to preside, but Jordan's presence spills beyond his chair. He is recognized as the ascendant power...
...alai fronton. "I can't miss with you." It was Jerry Wurf, Washington-based boss of the State, County and Municipal Workers, the nation's largest public employees union (750,000 members), cheering on a lanky player on the court. But when unlucky Pierre swung his curved basket at the speeding white jai alai ball and missed, Wurf, who had not won a bet all night, resignedly tore up his losing $2 ticket. "If we don't win the next one," he told a companion, "I want to go home...
Harvard momentarily revived closing to within 54-47, but with four minutes remaining Edmonds netted a basket and a free throw to put the Crimson out of its misery...
Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Joseph Califano discovered as much when he took a shopping list of items he wanted to the President. Califano left, remarked a White House adviser, with an "empty basket." The Environmental Protection Agency put together a 100-page appeal for more money and cheekily sprinkled it with quotes from Carter campaign speeches calling for more spending on the environment. The President was not moved. Patricia Harris, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, asked for more funds to expand a program of subsidized housing for the poor. She too was turned down. Says top White House...