Word: basketeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back in La Paix tavern, happy couples danced away the night to U.S. song hits while Mrs. van der Straeten served cocktails and gazed anxiously northward. Far out over the North Sea her husband sat patiently on the edge of his basket, his feet dangling over the waves that lapped ten yards below, "so that if I should go into the water, I would not be entangled in the gear." The moon was full by then and "traveling swiftly on the very edge of the waves," Joseph recalled. "It was like a fairy tale." As the waves came even closer...
...last week, General Electric's big, genial President Charles E. Wilson returned to his office to find 50 red roses in a basket beside his desk. "My favorite flower," he murmured, thumbing through them for a card. When he found one, from a Chicago bank, he was obviously touched. "Why," said Wilson, "they aren't even customers of ours...
...jokers-108 cards. The jokers and all deuces are wild. Red treys are bonus cards, worth 100 extra points. Black treys, by contrast, are purely defensive cards, and can be melded only when the player goes out at the end of a game. In the scoring, a canasta (literally, basket) is a seven-card meld, and if a player makes it the hard way (using no wild cards), the bonus is 500 points. Scoring can run into the thousands in a single hand; 5,000 points is game. In most forms of rummy the object is to match...
...individual players, too, were individually brilliant. One man scored with a neat over-the-shoulder shot, (which is roughly equivalent to shooting a basket with your back to the basket...
...Council Committees on Freshman Affairs, Red Book and NSA elections. Roger V. Pugh, Jr. of Eliot House--Eliot House Committee, PBH. Robert L. Lasky of Dunster House--House Committee, Co-Chairman House Dance Committee, College Social Affairs Committee, College Chairman of solicitation for NSA Purchase Card Drive, intra-mural basket-ball, PBH European relief drive...