Word: basketeers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With the score 60-40, Hooft put home a rebound off a Don Fleming shot. After a basket by Perry, Hooft rejected a Crusader shot and streaked down the court to bank in a gorgeous alley-oop pass from Glenn Fine off the fast break...
...Fine has done numberous times before in his career at Harvard, he nipped the potential comeback, twirling into the lane to sink a seemingly impossible layup and then tossing a 20-footer through the basket on the Crimson's next possession. Once again, the cagers had breathing room and when the teams broke for the intermission Harvard...
Aided by some perfect passing, the Crimson scored easy layups on an alley-oop play and a breakaway basket to capture a four-point lead early in the second half. Once the score reached 70-67 in Harvard's favor with ten minutes remaining in the contest, both teams suffered a five-minute scoring drought until a Bentley field goal broke the ice, setting the stage for Fine's defensive masterpiece...
Hashish, according to a character in The Stiff Upper Lip, "is the biggest growth product in France." A runner-up might be basketball, le basket, which the French have discovered with delight and ineptitude. As Private Detective B.F. (for Benjamin Franklin) Cage soon finds out in his third adventure sponsored by Peter Israel, the two trades can be slimily and bloodily involved...
Last week Common Market finance ministers met in Brussels to thrash out details of the proposed system. At its core would be the European Currency Unit, or ECU, whose value would be based on a "basket" of European currencies in which the German mark would weigh the most heavily. The ECU would be not a bill or a coin but a series of accounts that member governments would use. European currencies would be allowed to fluctuate around the ECU in a narrow band of 1% either way, and the ECU would float against the dollar. Moreover, when member nations intervened...