Word: basketfuls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...themselves, but more trust the job to assistants or to game-wise alumni. The job: 1) to record each play and shot, elaborately charted with identifying letters (H for hook shots, S for set, P for push); 2) to uncover players' idiosyncrasies and ways to block hot basket-makers; 3) to cook up tricky defenses. Few ambitious coaches can afford not to scout...
...defense, the Stahlmen were tricked again and again by the Coast Guard's ancient "figure 8" formation. Working pick-offs on Crimson man-to-man defenders, the Cadets boxed Crimson defenders, the Cadets boxed Crimson defenders with vicious regularity. But the Coast Guard just could not hit the basket their absolute-inability to score was the only thing which saved the game for the Crimson...
...Politician Bevin did not put all his eggs in one Utopian basket. He well knows that it is the governments of three nations, not the peoples of the world, that hold 90% of the world's military power; that the present charter of the United Nations was drafted in painful consciousness of that hard fact...
Seeking escape by the only likely-looking "exit," he pops through a little side door. An electric shock tickles his feet. He bolts up a ramp to a death chamber where electric contacts finish him off and dump his body into a wire basket. Meanwhile, the trap resets itself for another victim. The whole cycle takes about three minutes...
Catchall. The message was a characteristic Truman document. It was careful, comprehensive and a political catchall. There was little in it that the President had not recommended before. The news was: 1) the way he gathered all his eggs in one basket; and 2) the many respects in which he departed from his reputation as a man a little right of center and went over to Franklin Roosevelt's spot, a little left of center...