Word: basket
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...asked not to be identified, “When I first heard he was running for the presidency I laughed until I couldn’t see through the tears in my eyes. I just thought ‘The nation is going to hell in a hand-basket. If he can be president maybe I can be the Queen of England...
...Officers and Environmental Health and Safety officials were sent to the New Research Building on a report of a small chemical spill. They determined a small amount of substance had spilled into a wastepaper basket and that it was contained...
...weeks ago, Ronzone, director of international scouting for the NBA champion Detroit Pistons, appeared at a basketball clinic in Mexico, where he attempted to teach a young Spanish-speaking prospect how best to position himself around the rim. "Demand the qiu!" Ronzone shouted. "Get your cerveza under the basket!" Qiu (pronounced chee-yo) is Chinese for ball. Cerveza means beer in Spanish. Ronzone may have confused cerveza with cabeza, Spanish for head, though he admits, "I'm not sure I knew that...
...meals and mingling but moved to the sidelines as the men played stickball, basketball and touch football. In their navy Bronx Boys T shirts and with their once dark hair gray or nearly gone, the men remained competitive, disagreeing loudly over fouls. Here, though, a player scoring a basket was cheered by both sides...
This year, each woman named to the list was given a cash award and a trip to New York City to meet with the other winners and professionals in their respective fields, as well as a gift basket from the list’s sponsor, L’Oreal...