Word: basketeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scene was Warsaw's renovated, horseshoe-shaped Parliament Hall. One by ore, the members walked to a wicker basket in front of the speaker's dais to vote in Poland's first postwar presidential election. Everyone knew that the winner would be Boleslaw Bierut, who for 24 months had been the Communist-stooge Provisional President...
Midway in the voting, rolypoly Speaker Wladislaw Kowalski rang for order. Gravely he announced: "Some of you have been putting ballots into the basket openly. This is a secret vote. You must fold your ballots, so your choice cannot be seen...
Stubborn, glum Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, the Polish Peasant Party's leader, tried, amidst jeers, to block the steamroller. Although he and 25 members of his party, now the sole opposition in Parliament, dropped blank votes in the basket, the result was foregone. Next day Bierut named husky, hard-faced, 35-year-old Josef Cyrankiewicz, an able and energetic left-wing Socialist, as Premier. Egg-bald Cyrankiewicz is a onetime artillery officer who was liberated by U.S. troops from the infamous German prison camp at Mauthausen. He has come up fast. Right-wing Socialists accuse him of double-crossing them...
...teams unable to make their shots count. Free throws and field goal tries rolled off both rims time after time, and at the end of the second quarter the Jayvees led by a narrow 18 to 15 margin. In the last two periods, however, Kopp's men found the basket, and their barrage left the Hub college quintet far behind...
Hitting the basket in the second half for 27 points, Coach Hal Kopp's Jayvee quintet swamped a shorter Suffolk University squad 45 to 27 in the Indoor Athletic Building last night. High scorer for the Crimson was Frank Bixler, who netted the opening tally of the game and went on to rack up 16 points before the final horn...