Word: basketfuls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crimson team took more shots at the basket than its rivals, but its listless, over-confident attitude allowed the Cardinals to have the upper hand throughout the entire game...
...clash of two very similar systems of offense and defense, Although little is known of this year's Bruin team, spectators can expect a fast-breaking offensive show with the accent on scoring. The winner may thus very well be the first team to get under the basket and take the most number of shots...
Then the subs, in spite of a shot at the wrong basket by one of their members, managed to protect the lead until the end of the game...
Crowds hissed her as she was driven to her trial in the prison van. Her dressy friends flocked to see the trial, carrying opera glasses and basket lunches. Florrie's counsel was Sir Charles Russell, later Lord Chief Justice. Her defense: that May-brick had long been addicted to drugs of all sorts, including arsenic; that it was at his own insistence that Florrie had put some "white powder" into his meat juice; that the cause of death had not been fixed with any certainty (which was true); that she had soaked the flypapers for arsenic...
...political dynamite. A hotbed of isolationism, this section is not likely to support enthusiastically a full-scale war; yet when the war is over its people will presumably be asked to submit to a trade-pact tariff-lowering policy, which they feel is a sock at their bread-basket. And what steps are being taken against the post-war flames of hate which make any sane treatment of a defeated enemy impossible? Lastly, is there any hope that Congress will knife through political morass and public let-George-do-it-iveness to solve the problem of wartime inflation...