Word: basketfuls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years, olive-skinned jai alai professionals, wielding elongated basket-like contraptions called cestas, have whipped pelotas from one end of a three-walled concrete court to the other, banged their heads against the wall in disgust when they muffed a point, and pulled off shots requiring marvels of footwork and timing. Despite these pulse-quickening bursts, most Miamians found they could take Cuba's fast-paced game or leave it alone. In either case, they kept on leaving their spare change at Miami's horse and dog tracks...
...Army is now getting 600 to 800 amputation cases a month. There have been no so-called "basket" cases (both arms & legs amputated); such casualties almost never survive their wounds...
...classic story the animal concealed in the basket is a mongoose, to be given to a dipsomaniac who is infested by snakes. "But those snakes are only imaginary!" "Certainly, but so is this mongoose...
Harvard's Mike Keene battled 6 foot 2 center Johnny Bach in a thrilling individual scoring duel, with the Brown star winning out by the slim margin of one basket, 20 points...
...visitors concentrated in the first half on feeding Bach in under the basket with set-ups which the Bruin pivot man was flipping in from all angles. Halftime score was Brown 39, Harvard...